I would then have resigned all pretensions to her fortune; but she started into Phrensy, vowed she would follow me to the utmost extremity of the globe, and sooner deprive herself of every comfort in life, than leave me at liberty to renew an acquaintance with a woman I preferred to herself.
"The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. I"
Sophia Reeve
There is no Phrensy here-I just heard said.
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson
For, as it has happened, I am persuaded it has preserved a poor distressed creature from Phrensy-Have patience, and I will tell thee.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft