A Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations

Every human feeling, answered by Shakespeare: an 1892 dictionary that files the Bard's best lines under the passions they express — from Ambition to Woe.

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Terror: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Alas! how is't with you? That you do bend your eye on vacancy, And with the incorporal air do hold discourse? Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep, And, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm, Your bedded hair, like life in excrements, Starts up, and stands on end.— H. iii. 4
Thrice he walk'd By their oppress'd and fear suprised eyes, Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distill'd Almost to jelly with the act of fear, Stand dumb, and speak not to him,— H. i. 2
Shakesprarian Dictionary. THI Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.— M. iii. 3.
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