"Phrensy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fits not occurring but at very long and irregular intervals, she must be carefully watched; for the length of these lucid periods only rendered her more mischievous, when any vexation or caprice brought on the paroxysm of phrensy. ...
— Posthumous Works - of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • Mary Wollstonecraft
... battle gloom as red-combed snake Cleaves the blind waters! On! like Witch's glance, Or forked flash, or shaft of summer pest, And woe to him that meets thee! Mouth blood-red My daughter hath: —not healing be her kiss!" Thus he. In shade he stood, and phrensy-fired; And yet he marked who watched him. Without word Him Patrick passed; but spake to all the rest With voice so kindly reverent, "Is not this," Men asked, "the preacher of the 'Tidings Good?'" "What tidings? Has he found a mine?" "He speaks To princes as to brothers; to ...
— The Legends of Saint Patrick • Aubrey de Vere |
