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Amazement

[Thomas Dolby. 1832. The Shakespearian dictionary; a general index to the popular expressions, and most striking passages.]

"They seemed almost, with staring on one another, to tear the cases of their eyes; there was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture; they looked, as they had heard of a world ransomed, or one destroyed. A notable passion of wonder appeared in them: but the wildest beholder, that knew no more, but seeing could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow: but in the extremity of one it must be –

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Anger

"My tongue should stumble in mine earnest words; Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten flint; my hair be fixed an end, as one distract;

Aspect

Say, what's thy name? – Thou hast a grim appearance; & thy face bears a command in't; tho thy tackle's torn, Thou show'st a noble vessel.—

[Ballad-singer]

O master, if you did but hear the pedlar at the door, you would never dance again after a tabor & pipe; no, the bag pipe could

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not move you: he sings several tunes faster than you'll tell money; he utters them as he had eaten ballads, & all men's ears grow to their tunes.—

Bantering

With that, all laughed, & clapped him on the shoulder; making the bold wag by their praises bolder: One rubbed his elbow, thus; & fleered & swore, A better speech was never heard before.

Battle

Then lend the eye a terrific aspect: Let it pry through the portals of the head;

Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it,

As fearfully as doth galled rock O'ver-hang & jutty his confounded base,

Swill'd with the wild & wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth & stretch the nostrils wide,

Hold hard the breath & bend up every spirit to his full height.

Fear

"In thoughts from the visions of the night,

When deep sleep falleth on man

Fear came upon me & trembling, which made all my bones to shake

Then a spirit pass'd before my face;

The hair of my flesh stood up: Tab 4 -13- ?

[Annotation by Darwin:] From Shakespeare copied by Miss Butler