When this news reached Darius, he was excited to a perfect phrensy of resentment and indignation against the Athenians for coming thus into his own dominions to assist rebels, and there destroying one of his most important capitals.
His thoughts became insupportable; and, for a time, he was nearly wrought up tophrensy by the intensity of the mental conflict.
LXVI "Leave me the care," the fierce Gradasso cried, "The phrensy of this madman to subdue.
Already have the greenwood trees laid low Their leafy honours twice, and twice renewed, Since our lord's fury to such pitch arose, Now is there one his phrensy to oppose.
And 'gan that phrensy act, so passing dread, Of stranger folly never shall be said.
The riot at Baltimore was, like other riots in England and in France, the result of popular phrensy excited to madness by conduct of the most provoking character.
The militia was called out, but no one obeyed the call; and the only means of saving the poor wretches who were threatened by the phrensy of the mob, was to throw them into prison as common malefactors.
Mine was an act of such ridiculous phrensy that I am half ashamed to tell what it was.
A little phrensy has restored the palsied soul to life, and again has put its powers in motion.
No cold delay, no unfeeling negligence, no rash phrensy is to be feared from her!
His wilful phrensy he calls irresistible, and weeps for the torments which he himself inflicts.
Pyrrhus endured this mockery for a few moments as well as he could, but was finally goaded by it into a perfect phrensy of rage.
Pyrrhus was, of course, excited to the highest pitch of phrensy at hearing what had occurred.
This affair excited the mind of Cleonymus to a perfect phrensy of jealousy and rage.
Another was excited to a phrensy by the loss of his master, who had fallen off from his head, wounded by a dart or a spear.
So should all speak; so reason speaks in all: From the soft whispers of that God in man, Why fly to folly, why to phrensy fly, For rescue from the blessing we possess?
In a few moments the phrensy seemed to pass away; the noise fell from a wild clamour to a slow chant, and the procession returned to the church.
Several months passed, during which she heard nothing from the Marquis de Villeroi, and her days were marked, at intervals, with the phrensy of passion and the sullenness of despair.
How can I gaze upon you, and know, that it is, perhaps, for the last time, without suffering all the phrensy of despair?
The tears now fell fast upon her cheek, and he was relapsing into the phrensy of despair, when Emily endeavoured to recall her fortitude and to terminate an interview, which only seemed to increase the distress of both.
A lethargy would in some cases be a name for coma in fever, or for a paralytic stroke; a phrensy might be actual mania, or it might be the delirium of plague or typhus fever.
She threw herself on the ground, and in alternate prayer and phrensy passed the first night of her woe: towards morning, however, she fell into a perturbed sleep.
But what can resist the strength of phrensy and despair?
As I presume that his phrensy will be but of short continuance, I most earnestly wish, that on his recovery he could be prevailed upon to go abroad.
So many and yet more great effects could I tell you of the phrensy which comes from the gods.
So, as soon as he saw him, he broke forth in a perfect phrensy of vituperation and rage against him, and against his son, who was also present.
They worked themselves up to a perfect phrensy against religion and all its professors.
In extended parallel dialogue between Cadmus and Evadne the phrensy gradually passes away from her and she recognizes the deed she has done.
Prophecy is ascribed to the wine-god, for phrensy is prophetic; and he is an ally in war, sending panic on the foe ere lance crosses lance.
The deed changed the suppressed and silent irritation in Robert's heart to a perfect phrensy of rage and revenge.
In a word, the wretched Carthaginians had been pushed beyond the last limit of human endurance, and had aroused themselves to a hopeless resistance in a sort of phrensy of despair.
The announcement of this entirely unparalleled and intolerable requisition threw the whole city into a phrensy of desperation.
As Cyrus rode rapidly by, he saw Abradates in the midst of this scene, driving on in his chariot, and shouting to his men in a phrensy of excitement and triumph.
Astyages, when he heard of the defection of Harpagus and of the discomfiture of his army, was thrown into a perfect phrensy of rage and hate.
Heidrek was most pleased with the sword; but when he drew it from its sheath to look at it, the berserk phrensy came upon him, and he slew Angantyr.
In a phrensy of her soul, writes to her to demand news of her beloved friend, spirited away, as she apprehends, by the base arts of the blackest of men.
The god of verse vouchsafed to join the rest; He said, "What phrensy thus torments thy breast?
This play, translated from AEschylus, exhibited the phrensy of Orestes, and his final absolution from the vengeance of the Furies.
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