So, HECTORS sighte greate feare in Greekes did worke, When hee was showed on horsebacke, beeinge dead: HVNIADES, the
terrour of the Turke, Thoughe layed in graue, yet at his name they fled: And cryinge babes, they ceased with the same, The like in FRANCE, sometime did TALBOTS name.
This allows the fancy to compose and forge 'disguised shapes, which give
terrour unto the heart' (125-6).
The heddes of all those (of what sort soever thei were) which were killed in the dale, should be cutte off from their bodies and brought to the place where he incamped at night, and should there bee laied on the ground by eche side of the waie ledying into his owne tente so that none could come into his tente for any cause but commonly he muste passe through a lane of heddes which he used ad terrorem...[It brought] greate
terrour to the people when thei sawe the heddes of their dedde fathers, brothers, children, kindsfolke, and freinds...
He pursues not harmony but "
Terrour and Magnificence," "Strangeness and Awefulness" (5, 52).
To prove it, Sheridan claims that animals have a language of their own, expressed only in tones and that people, too, are capable of a language that eschews words: [W]henever the force of these passions is extreme, words give place to inarticulate sounds: sighs, murmurings, in love; sobs, groans, and cries in grief; half-choaked sounds in rage; and shrieks in
terrour, are then the only language heard.
"Repaire me now," he pleads, for now mine end doth haste, I runne to death, and death meets me as fast, And all my pleasures are like yesterday, I dare not move my dimme eyes any way, Despaire behind, and death before doth cast Such
terrour....
There must be some coercive Power, to compell men equally to the performance of their Covenants, by the
terrour of some punishment, greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their Covenant; and to make good that Proprietry, which by mutuall Contract men acquire, in recompence of the universal Right they abandon: and such power there is none before the erection of a Common-wealth (p.