Among those who shared in the Macpherson craze were Goethe and Napoleon Bonaparte.
The Anglo-Saxon craze appears to reach its high-water mark in some American universities.
From the puppet craze well on into his precocious university life it was his passion to explore the widest ranges of experience and then to reflect, moralize, or poetize upon them.
On this basis he constructs the above curve, comparing with this the curve of a craze for reading and for precision in speech.
Those smitten with the institution craze or with any extreme correctionalist views will never solve the problem of criminal youths.
But it is important that the latter point should be further emphasized in connexion with the craze for occultism that is spreading through society.
What is the explanation of this craze for magic in Western Europe?
As a result of these teachings a craze for Cabalism spread amongst Christian prelates, statesmen, and warriors, and a number of Christian thinkers took up the doctrines of the Cabala and "essayed to work them over in their own way.
This was a recrudescence of the old craze for occultism, which now spread like wildfire all over Europe from Bordeaux to St. Petersburg.
For all the frequency with which they framed and iterated sterile and exasperating sumptuary pragmatics for their people, the Spanish kings themselves went even beyond the nobles in their craze for ostentatious luxury.
Sir Timothy had assailed the recent craze for drugs, a diatribe to which Lady Cynthia had listened in silence for reasons which Francis could surmise.
Lady Cynthia, however, seems to me to belong to the extreme section of the younger generation, the section who have a sort of craze for the unusual, whose taste in art and living is distorted and bizarre.
It seems to me, however, that the art craze is one of the modern phases of woman's sexual life.
In the art craze I am rather vague as to how it came about, but I think, as a rule, there was rather a craving for pleasure than pleasure itself.
The more such longings are satisfied, the more they must grow and become a craze which sharpens the feeling of dissatisfaction.
Can we deny that this recent craze which, like a dancing mania, has whirled over the country, is a significant expression of deep cultural changes which have come to America?
Yet the problem which faces every one is not how this dancing craze arose, but rather where it may lead, how far it is healthy and how far unsound, how far we ought to yield to it or further it, and how far we ought to resist.
Whether Mr Arnold shared Mark Pattison's craze about the abolition of the pass-man altogether, I do not know.
A speculative craze followed, the like of which has never since been known.
But the particular craze against which this paper was directed was the popularity of novels and songs, of which the ruffians of the Newgate Calendar were the accepted heroes.
Like most of the papers on which we subsequently worked together, the object was not merely to amuse, but also to strike at some prevailing literary craze or vitiation of taste.
But in dread of O'Woundy, and Digger, he takes up thecraze every Briton cries shame at, before he has thoroughly gagged them.
I am told that Oxford men are now become addicted to total abstinence,--a craze unheard of in my time, save as a last resource for incurables.
The owners were simply a gang of unscrupulous adventurers, who had thought to avail themselves of the existing craze for American mining properties.
It is of course only to mountaineering as a semi-fashionable craze that these remarks apply.
The only way, he feared, to put an end to his wicked craze was to put an end to his life--an irreputable argument, but to be used moderately.
Every man has his craze or his ideal, and mine may lead me from China to Great Salt Lake, or to the Sahara.
This craze of Paul's seemed almost a judgment upon my head.
The dreadful presence of Paul's craze will not avaunt.
Granted that either Oswald or Alice had been murdered, Paul's significant craze is legally irrelevant.
From this country thecraze spread to Great Britain, and even to the Continent.
The well-known "blue glass" craze of about thirty-five years ago gives us another interesting example.
The craze for child actors and marionettes in 1852 led Punch to bestow an ironical commendation on the latter on the ground that they never squabbled in the greenroom.
I only show mycraze to intimate friends, and strangers who ask me once about the fore man Roland rarely do so a second time.
He was a worthy, excellent man before the craze for liberty turned people's heads.
She had been sentenced, and the confession could do her no possible good or harm; it and all of its kind must have been dictated by a sheer hysterical nervousness or else by a fanatical craze for notoriety.
It was the rage a year or two ago; girls had a craze for joining Settlements, and running about in the slums, but it's quite out of date.
So many people winter abroad; and there is quite a craze for these physical exercises.
It would be somewhere for you to go on free afternoons, and she entertains a good deal, and has a craze for the feminist movement, and for girls who work for themselves.
But mostly it was just a craze among the very wealthy, as distinguishing them from people who could afford but one set of litter-bearers.
I have rather a craze for horses, I know, but doesn’t it look magnificent.
All savants have a craze for impossible discoveries.
Gregers Werle, the malignant imbecile, who holds and proclaims his passion for gossip as an ardent desire for truth, inherits this craze from his mother.
The picture, however, which from a clinical standpoint is perfectly clear, gets dimmed if the apostle of a craze and his followers succeed in attracting to themselves the attention of wider circles.
The craze spread; neighbor accused neighbor; enemies apparently tried to pay old scores by the same method; and those who did not confess were put to death.
Coffin in his Old Times in the Colonies has summed up the matters briefly and vividly: "The saddest story in the history of our country is that of the witch craze at Salem, Mass.
