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lfct.x.] expression of the figure. 249
LECTURE X.
EXPRESSION OF THE FIGURE.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
We are arrived at the last lecture of the present
series, wherein we propose to investigate some of
those principles which may illustrate the expres-
sion of the figure.
This subject is extremely copious; we may indeed
say expressions are infinite, and that each person
has his peculiar expression : however, as this article
has, like all others, its general rules and limitations,
we shall endeavour, by illustrating them, to render
the subject itself intelligible, within a moderate com-
pass.
Expression always implies motion; but motion
has also its laws and its peculiarities. Expression
does not so much create motion as direct it—direct it
to a particular purpose, and to a specific end. We
shall therefore, before we proceed to expression,
attend somewhat to the principles which appear to
govern the motions of the human figure.
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LECTURE X.
EXPRESSION OF THE FIGURE.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
We are arrived at the last lecture of the present
series, wherein we propose to investigate some of
those principles which may illustrate the expres-
sion of the figure.
This subject is extremely copious; we may indeed
say expressions are infinite, and that each person
has his peculiar expression : however, as this article
has, like all others, its general rules and limitations,
we shall endeavour, by illustrating them, to render
the subject itself intelligible, within a moderate com-
pass.
Expression always implies motion; but motion
has also its laws and its peculiarities. Expression
does not so much create motion as direct it—direct it
to a particular purpose, and to a specific end. We
shall therefore, before we proceed to expression,
attend somewhat to the principles which appear to
govern the motions of the human figure.
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