Careful Words

amaze (v.)

Ye gods, it doth amaze me

A man of such a feeble temper should

So get the start of the majestic world

And bear the palm alone.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act i. Sc. 2.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style,

Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 126.