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

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Compound pafiion, the movement is com-
pound ■, if the paffion is gentle, the move-
ment is gentle, (C); if violent, fo is the move-
ment, (D).

But it mult be remembered, that there are
two kinds of elevations of the eye-brow; one?
when it rifes in the middle, exprefling agree-
able fenfationSj (E) when the brow thus
rifes (F), the corners of the mouth are ele-
vated, (G); whereas, in expreflions of forrow,
the mouth is elevated in the middle, (H):
but, when the eye-brow finks in the middle*
(I), denoting bodily pain, then the mouth
finks at its corners, (K).

In laughter all the parts follow each other;
for the brows defcend towards the centre of
the forehead, and make the nofe, mouth, and
eyes follow the fame motion, (L).

In weeping (M), the movements are com-
pound and contrary; for the eye-brows lower
themfelves towards the eyes and nofe, towards
which the mouth rifes, (N).

When the heart is dejected, fo are all parts
of the face, (O); but when the heart is en-
flamed and hardened by fome paffion (P),
the parts of the face follow a fimilar move-
ment, particularly the mouth; which proves
that this part exhibits more efpecially the fen-
fations of the heart. For we mud obferve,

that