FEAR
Ich weiss, dass man vor leeren Schreeken zittert;
Doch wahres Ungluck bringt der falsche Wahn.
I know that oft we tremble at an empty terror, but the false phantasm brings a real misery.
Schiller—Piccolomini. V. 1. 105.
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Scott—Rob Roy. Ch.XXIV.
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| text = <poem>Necesse est multos timeat, quern multi timent.
He must necessarily fear many, whom many fear.
Seneca—De Ira. II. 11.
Si vultis nihil timere, cogitate omnia esse timenda.
If you wish to fear nothing, consider that
everything is to be feared.
Seneca—Quaestionum Naiuralium. VI. 2.
It is a basilisk unto mine eye,
Kills me to look on't.
Cymbeline. Act II. Sc. 4. L.
Best safety lies in fear.
Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 3.
L.43.
There is not such a word
Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear.
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 84.
Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek
Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand.
Henry IV. Pt. II. Act 1. Sc. 1. L. 68.
Things done well,
And with a care, exempt themselves from fear;
Things done without example, in their issue
Are to be feared.
Henry VIII. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 88. ,
It is the part of men to fear and tremble,
When the most mighty gods by tokens send
Such dreadful heralds to astonish us.
Julius Caesar. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 54.
n For I am sick and capable of fears,
Oppress'd with wrongs, and therefore full of fears,
A widow, husbandless, subject to fears,
A woman, naturally born to fears.
King John. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 12.
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs.
Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 136.
Present fears
Are less than horrible iniaginings.
Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 137.
Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep
In the affliction of these terrible dreams
That shake us nightly.
Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 17.
Thou can'st not say I did it; never shake
Thy gory locks at me.
Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 49.
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You can behold such sights,
And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks,
When mine is blanch'd with fear.
Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 114.
His flight was madness: when our actions do not,
Our fears do make us traitors.
Macbeth. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 3.
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush suppos'd a bear!
Midsummer Night's Dream. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 21.
To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.
Richard II. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 180.
Truly the souls of men are full of dread:
Ye cannot reason almost with a man
That looks not heavily and full of fear.
Richard III. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 39.
They spake not a word;
But, like dumb statues or breathing stones,
Gazed each on other, and look'd deadly pale.
Richard III. Act III. Sc. 7. L. 24.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life.
Tunc plurima versat
Pessimus in dubiis augur timor.
Then fear, the very worst prophet in misfortunes, anticipates many evils.
Statius—Thebais. III. 5.
Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.
Fear in the world first created the gods.
Stattos—Thebais. III. 661.
Do you think I was born in a wood to be
afraid of an owl?
Swift—Polite Conversation. Dialogue I.
Etiam fortes viros subitis terreri.
Even the bravest men are frightened by
sudden terrors.
Tacitus—Annates. XV. 59.
Bello in si bella vista anco e l'orrore,
E di mezzo la tema esce il diletto.
Horror itself in that fair scene looks gay,
And joy springs up e'en in the midst of fear.
Tasso—Gerusalemme. XX. 30.
Fear
Stared in her eyes, and chalk'd her face.
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Desponding Fear, of feeble fancies full,
Weak and unmanly, loosens every power.
Thomson—The Seasons. Spring. L. 286.
Il faut tout attendre et tout craindre du temps et des hommes.
We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.
Vauvenargues—Reflexions. CU.
