The artists repository and drawing magazine: exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches (1.1787)

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all is admiration, whofe language is a kind
of what is it? for we naturally enquire the
properties of an object, before we defire or
love, fince it may be unfit for defire or love:
or before we hate, and diflike; fince it may on
examination prove to be the very thing we
wifh for.

Compound paffions are, fear, hope, cou-
rage, despair, &c. We are told by M. Le
Brunt, that, that part of the face where the
paffions fhew themfelves moft diftinctly is the
eye-brow, though many have fuppofed it to
be the eye. It is true, fays he, the eye-
ball, by its fire and motion, fhews clearly the
agitation of the mind, but it does not exprefs
the nature of that agitation. The mouth
and the nofe have a great fhare in expreffion;
but in general, thefe parts only follow the mo-
tions of the heart.

It has been faid, that in the mind refide two
appetites, one mild, the other ferocious, from
whence proceed all the paffions; fo in the eye-
brow there are two motions which exprefs their
fenfations. Thefe two motions coincide per-
fectly with thofe two appetites; and it is
remarkable, that in proportion as the
paffions vary their nature, the movement of
the brow varies its form.

To exprefs a fimple paffion, the movement
is fimple, (A. B. vide Principles); in a

compound