Madness came on me, and a troop Of misty shapes did seem to sit Beside me, on a vessel's poop, And the clear north wind was driving it.
And vainly having with her madness striven If I might win her to return with me, Departed.
The madness which these rites had lulled, awoke 4200 Again at sunset.
Lo, that is mine own child, who in the guise 4645 Of madness came, like day to one benighted In lonesome woods: my heart is now too well requited!
Was that corpse a shade Such as self-torturing thought from madness breeds?
At last the summer madness of the past drifted away, at last she began to realize, and just as she had done so this blundering fool asked her to go.
Then the horror and shame of it all made the hot blood rush in madness to her face.
In a solitary room of his house, shut out from the light of day, Hawkshawe was drinking himself to madness and to death.
Hawkshawe insisted on having her about him, but it was not to console; it was because he wanted some one upon whom to work off the fits of semi-madness that came on him.
Euripides found his chief delight in the labour of giving tragic expression to these two passions of madness and love, showing here a real mastery which I cannot think he exhibited elsewhere.
Nature must “burst out with a kind of fine madness and divine inspiration.
Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth.
He had friends whose opinions covered every description of madness from the French legitimism of De Ripert-Monclar to the Republicanism of Landor.
They wrote letters full of temptation and of madness to each other, and not a day passed without their meeting, either accidentally, as it seemed, or at parties and balls.
It was a frenzy, a madness that took possession of your noble spirit.
No, Antoñona; I see that my madness is contagious, and that you are raving, too.
Even her father's well-known madness for things of art could scarcely atone to his child for this indignity.
Often have I thought of this and prayed for the opportunity, but such madness does not benefit.
Reality was intoxicated with madnessand Death, united with Life, brought forth apparitions.
If thus the true faith they no longer defend I scarcely can think where the madness will end-- If the greatest among them submit to the Pope, What reason have I for indulgence to hope?
That brother should by brother bleed, And pour'd suchmadness in the mind.
When they become an obstacle to the comprehension it is madness to wish to observe them.
Member how those Italian giants used to have periods of madness while they decorated the everlasting cathedrals?
At least three women of her acquaintance were raving about Andrew Bedient, two artists with a madness for sub-surface matters having to do with men.
The stream was black, it sounded deep As it rush'd the rocks between, It offer'd well, for madnessfired The breast of Gondoline.
As she stood in the sunlight she was as a goddess, an Aphrodite descended from Olympus, to drive men to sweet madness by the ravishing puissance of her charms.
The paddle shivered, but it was madness to embark on the stoven craft.
It is madness to drift down upon the lower bridge.
The Madness of Winds On all the upland pastures the strong winds gallop free, Trampling down the flowered stalks sleepy in the sun, Whirl away in blue and gold all their finery, Till naked crouch the gentle hosts where the winds have run.
It describes the madness of the youth Attis, who mutilates himself and gives himself up to the service of the goddess Cybele.
The despair of Attis when he recovers from his madness and yearns for his country, his friends, and his past happiness, is depicted with admirable power, and the ecstatic worship of Cybele is most vividly portrayed.
Who has not felt, in the first madness of sorrow, an unreasoning rage against the mute propriety of chairs and tables, the stiff squareness of Turkey carpets, the unbending obstinacy of the outward apparatus of existence?
There may have beenmadness in your sister-in-law's family.
Do you know, Alicia, that madness is more often transmitted from father to daughter, and from mother to daughter than from mother to son?
Because there is no evidence ofmadness in anything she has done.
But madnessis sometimes hereditary," said my lady.
He told the Frenchman that this Mrs. Taylor was distantly related to him--that she had inherited the seeds of madness from her mother, as indeed Dr.
You know that some physicians declare madness to be a mere illness of the brain--an illness to which any one is subject, and which may be produced by given causes, and cured by given means.
He is wondering whether I am the patient," thought Mr. Audley, "and is looking for the diagnoses of madness in my face.
Madness is not necessarily transmitted from mother to daughter.
She spoke as if her mind had almost wandered away from the thought of her husband's nephew to the wider question of madness in the abstract.
The fearless spirit of a madness seemed upon him, for he rushed up the steep ascent, and plunged into the forest, apparently careless what direction he took.
If he then will look about him, he will understand how this kind of madness works.
That these cries can be uttered together in the face of heaven, in the face of truth, proves at a stroke the monstrosity of the laws which rule us, and the madness of the gods.
It was a sort of madness of sincerity and simplicity which seized me.
Fanatical madness is contagious, and an imposter who misuses the name of the Deity can soon reckon on a numerous following.
Contented with the second place, it would have been madness on his part to have formed the idea of taking the first.
This letter Ophelia dutifully showed to her father, and the old man thought himself bound to communicate it to the king and queen, who from that time supposed that the true cause of Hamlet's madness was love.
Indeed, it would be madness for the strongest to stir abroad on such a night.
And, leaning there, with parted lips and closed eyes, gradually my madness left me, and the throbbing in my brain grew less.
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