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ration, longing defire ; a panting breafi, with eyes 
alternately fparkling, and rolling in tears * the fair- 
eft incarnation, blooming features, exprefting im- 
patience, with a flutter like the quaking fit of an 
ague, followed by fighs, anxiety, and raptures. 
Our next delightful talk is to confider the cha- 
rafters in which all thefe fenfations are ftamped 
upon the countenance, fo that every motion of the 
foul tranfpires by the a£lion of the nerves, fibres, 
and mufcles ; which it would be impoffible for an 
artift to reprefent properly, unlefs he was well ac- 
quainted with the interior machinery of the human 
figure, hereafter explained. This demonftration 
muft carry conviftion with refpeft to the advan- 
tages that the fine imitative arts derive from ana- 
tomy. 
ESSAY 
