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182 OF EXPRESSION. £lECT. VII.
of the eye-lid, sometimes to the other ; all the parts
of the face being strongly marked and swelled.
After Rage we place Despair ; which may be
represented by a man who gnashes his teeth, foams,
and bites his lips; his forehead wrinkled in gashes
from top to bottom .: his eye-brows depressed over
his eyes, closed (or nearly) next the nose ; the eye
full of fire and blood; the ball rolling, hid under
the brows ; the eye-lids swelled, and livid ; the nos-
trils enlarged, opened, drawn up, and greatly swelled ;
the whole of the countenance livid, strongly marked,
and deformed as the preceding passion.
Such are the consequences of Anger ! who that
considered them but would wish to be delivered from
this savage tyrant! to whom if any person be natu-
rally a subject, yet restrains, moderates, vanquishes,
and governs his passion ; I would congratulate him
in the words of Wisdom, " Greater is he who ruleth
his spirit, than he who taketh a city :" divest Alex-
ander of the title great, and bestow it on him
who thus conquers himself.
We have already remarked, that many passions
may be so combined and mingled with each other,
as to require an expression compounded of both ;
and sometimes even contrary sensations have been
represented by artists with great success. Rubens,
in his birth of Louis XIII. which forms one subject
of his History of Mary of Medicis, in the Luxem-
bourgh Gallery, has taken that opportunity to ex-
press the sense of pain remaining from child-birth,
and the joy with which the fond mother beholds her
infant
of the eye-lid, sometimes to the other ; all the parts
of the face being strongly marked and swelled.
After Rage we place Despair ; which may be
represented by a man who gnashes his teeth, foams,
and bites his lips; his forehead wrinkled in gashes
from top to bottom .: his eye-brows depressed over
his eyes, closed (or nearly) next the nose ; the eye
full of fire and blood; the ball rolling, hid under
the brows ; the eye-lids swelled, and livid ; the nos-
trils enlarged, opened, drawn up, and greatly swelled ;
the whole of the countenance livid, strongly marked,
and deformed as the preceding passion.
Such are the consequences of Anger ! who that
considered them but would wish to be delivered from
this savage tyrant! to whom if any person be natu-
rally a subject, yet restrains, moderates, vanquishes,
and governs his passion ; I would congratulate him
in the words of Wisdom, " Greater is he who ruleth
his spirit, than he who taketh a city :" divest Alex-
ander of the title great, and bestow it on him
who thus conquers himself.
We have already remarked, that many passions
may be so combined and mingled with each other,
as to require an expression compounded of both ;
and sometimes even contrary sensations have been
represented by artists with great success. Rubens,
in his birth of Louis XIII. which forms one subject
of his History of Mary of Medicis, in the Luxem-
bourgh Gallery, has taken that opportunity to ex-
press the sense of pain remaining from child-birth,
and the joy with which the fond mother beholds her
infant