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As a person, White was a self-tormented man who drove himself to high and lonely accomplishment; he was also a fairly ordinary product of post-Victorian England.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fragmentary, obscure, scattered in the recriminations of a self-tormented man, the narrative of Poet Robinson's new work engrosses the reader's efforts, distracts him from the tragic beauty of eerie moonlight, wraiths, tortured souls.

From Time Magazine Archive

For reason banishes all other griefs, but itself creates regret when the soul is vexed with shame and self-tormented.

From Plutarch's Morals by Shilleto, Arthur Richard

And the self-tormented individual lies wakeful, during weary night-hours, revolving a thousand possibilities, and conjuring up a thousand vague perhapses.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various

The fervour is universal; the tumult of intellectual man, self-tormented with unfathomable questions, is contagious everywhere.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)