...conceivable emblem of death, every kind of morbid horror, is brought to her; in Charles Lamb's words, "she has lived among horrors till she is become 'native...She speaks the dialect of despair, her tongue has a snatch of Tartarus and the souls in bale." At the end she is no longer terrified by the prospect of...

...ordinary poets. As they are not like inflictions of this life, so her language seems not of this world. She has lived among horrors till she is become 'native...of despair, her tongue has a smatch of Tartarus and die souls in bale. There can be no doubt what the reading of act iv suggested to Lamb. Of course, as...

...revenge tragedy, horror must be savored for its own sake. Charles Lamb's description of Webster's ability "to move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear" can stand for the entire genre.50 This overwhelming repetition and elaboration of the horror archetype...

...he shows, shares that automatic life which Coleridge imparts to the crew of the "Ancient Mariner". "She has lived among horrors till she is become 'native...skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon 7-2 fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in...

...tomb-miiker, the Ы'П-шан, the living person's dirge, the mortification by degree« ! To move n horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick,. to lay upon fear 09 much ae it can l»ear, to wenn aud weary life till it i* readj to drop, and then step in with mortal...