Some physical ailment, some want of change and movement may have underlain this morbid and sombre passionateness; and we learn that when he was still a tiny boy, having heard that the poisonous hemlock was a sort of grass which brought death, and with no clear notion what death was, but with a vague longing for it, he gorged himself with grass out of the garden, in the belief that there would be some hemlock in it.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
The same passionateness that ruled Dennis was present in him, also, though well concealed under his habitual calm; but it had broken loose now.
"True and Other Stories"
George Parsons Lathrop
My Lord's passionateness for want thereof, and his want of coming in of rents, and no wages from the Duke of York.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke