22S CATENATION OF MOTIONS. SECT. XVII. i- 



3. Befides the facility, which by habit attends 

 the execution of this mufical performance, a curi- 

 ous circumftance occurs, which is, that when our 

 young mufician has begun a tune, me finds herfelf 

 inclined to continue it 5 and that even when (he is 

 carelefsly finging alone without attending to her 

 own fong ; according with the third preceding 

 article. 



4. At the fame time that our young performer 

 continues to play with great exaclnefs this accuf- 

 tomed tune, me can bend her mind, and that in- 

 tenfely, on forfte other object, according with the 

 fourth article of the preceding propofitions. 



The manufcript copy of this work was lent to 

 many of my friends at different times for the pur- 

 pofc of gaining their opinions and criticifms on 

 many parts of it, and I found the following anec- 

 dote written with a pencil opofite to this page, 

 but am not certain by whom. " I remember fee- 

 ing the pretty young actrefs, w ; ho fucceeded Mrs* 

 Arne in the performance of the celebrated Pad- 

 lock, rehearfe the mufical parts at her harpfichord 

 under the eye of her matter with great tafte and 

 accuracy ; though I obferved her countenance full 

 of emotion, which I could not account for ; at laft 

 flic fuddenly burft into tears ; for (he had all this 

 time been eyeing a beloved canary bird, fuffering 

 great agonies, which at that inftant fell dead from 

 its perch." 



5. At the fame time many other catenated circles 

 of action are going on in the perfon of our fair 

 mufician, as well as the motions of her fingers, fuch 

 as the vital motions, refpiration, the movements of 

 her eyes and eyelids, and of the intricate mufcles 

 of vocality, according with the fifth preceding 

 article. 



6. If by any ftrong impreflion on the mind of 

 our fair mufician fhe fhould be interrupted for a 



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