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

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Open, the fingers fpread, the arms kept tight
to the body, the legs endeavouring to efcape.

Affright has very vigorous expreffion; the
arms thrown forward feem to ft i ft en the
legs fly with the -utmoft rapidity : and every
part of the body recoils from its dreaded ad-
verfary.

Love creates no great emotion in the fi-
gure ■, the prefence of its object animates its
motions, but not very ftrongly, nor after any
fixed manner in mode ft affection.

Desire extends the arms towards its ob-
ject, and inclines the whole body on that fide :
all the parts appear agitated and reftlefs.

Of hope we have obferved that its motions
are contradictory, and fluctuating ■, wavering
between doubt and expectation.

Joy is a firft ftep to rapture; its motions
are more or lefs moderate.

Fear has many motions in common with
affright, when it arifes from a dread of
lolling fomewhat v/e value, or when we expect
a calamity to befall us. This paffion fhrugs
the ihoulders, keeps tight the arms and hands
to the body; the other parts are bent, and as it
were collected together, and fhivering.

Jealousy has an invincible curiofity to watch
its object; the head and upper part of the body
will protrude themfclvts in hopes of e leaping

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