There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that Calenture of the brains that can make the stage a field.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
The reader is led to feel that amid the loneliness of the tropic sea, the line between the earthly and the unearthly vanishes, and the poet leaves him to discover for himself whether the spectral shapes that the mariner saw were merely the visions of the Calenture, or a glimpse of the world of spirits.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers
Know, sir, I would be silent if I durst: But if, on shipboard, I should see my friend Grown frantic in a raging Calenture, And he, imagining vain flowery fields, Would headlong plunge himself into the deep,- Should I not hold him from that mad attempt, Till his sick fancy were by reason cured?
"The Works Of John Dryden, Vol. 7 (of 18) The Duke of Guise; Albion and Albanius; Don Sebastian"
John Dryden