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Updated: May 13, 2025
O Thought! monstrous and splendid flower springing from the humus of our time-honoured instincts!... In truth, thou art an element penetrating and impregnating man, but thou dost not spring from him, thy source is beyond him, and thy strength greater than his. Our senses are fairly well-adapted to our needs but our thought is not, it overflows and maddens us.
Why, you must guess, you must know it is you and not she whom I love." Violet sits astounded. She is too much amazed even to resent this. Surely he cannot have been so deceitful, so false-hearted. "You like me," she begins, tremulously, "and I am your sister, your brother's wife " "And you might have been mine! It maddens me when I think of it." "And it humiliates me."
The peaceful virtues, under whose influence Nations flourish and mankind rejoice, possess no lasting captivations for the Hero. The draught of conquest maddens his brain, and excites an insatiable thirst for fresh atchievements He "Looks into the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend"
At sea, in the tropics, a night on deck under the broad full moon stiffens and entirely maddens, if it does not kill; here the madness is only partial and it has a general reference to mischief and the opposite sex; but the influence is the same, under different degrees of development.
You sacrificed me to a man whom I hate not because he is my successful rival, but because he does not deserve the love of my empress; because he is a heartless spendthrift, and a wretch who is ready to sell his sovereign's honor at any moment, provided the price offered him be worth the treachery. Oh! it maddens me when I think that Gregory Orloff was displaced for a Potemkin!"
He had no twin, a disobedient soldier, a liar and betrayer, as it was said he had. If I could do that, Judith! I do not see how I will do it, and yet it is my intention to do it. That done, then, darling, darling! I will make true love to you. If it is not done but I will not think of that. Only only how to do it, how to do it! That maddens me at times " "Is it that? Then we must think of that.
The Crag, with absolutely no knowledge of my intentions, except it may be a psychic one, sits there every night and smokes and looks out at Old Harpeth and maddens me, while some one of the others walks in and out and around and about and sits down beside him, where I want to be.
That is the question that maddens one," he answered after a long pause. "The Bible says the same hand that was nailed to the cross on Calvary created it. 'By whom also the worlds were made," I murmured. "Ah, if we only had some evidence of that; but it is all dark, dark, on the other side of death, and on the other side of life too. Whence came we whither do we tend?
"It maddens a fellow to think that we made them the under dogs, and as much by giving them a 'boss, as you say, in fire-water, as by anything else." "I kind o' think that way myself sometimes," said Herb. And there was silence until the guide cried: "Here's our camp, boys. I'll bet you're glad to see it. I must get the kettle, and cruise off for water.
Bettina's mother's note: Not that she will allow you to do it, or because she isn't entirely able to take care of herself; but because the people here are a talky lot. Bettina will probably look after you. She has come from college with a feeling that I am old and decrepit and must be cared for. She maddens me with pillows and cups of tea and woolen shawls.
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