stupor-fixed

Updated: May 6, 2025

But admitting the artist's own version of the story, and that the sight was seen also by the thousand courtiers let it have been visible to all Babylon as the knees of Belshazzar were shaken, and his countenance troubled, even so would the knees of every man in Babylon, and their countenances, as of an individual man, been troubled; bowed, bent down, so would they have remained, stupor-fixed, with no thought of struggling with that inevitable judgment.

Charles Lamb - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 : Elia and The Last Essays of Elia