LOOKING-GLASS. 
79 
The regular or irregular form of the brows, 
their height and compafs, tally with the turn and 
meafure of our faculties, expreffing our feelings and 
ways of thinking. 
The tkin, fold, colour, eafe, and motion of the 
brow, or temple, contain chara6ters in which the 
patTions and affeiftions of the mind are clearly writ- 
ten ; for it is the part that the ancients called the 
gate of the foul, the temple of blufhing modefty. 
Nor does the beauty of it confift in the fize, and 
round or fquare (liape, fo much as in the exa6f pro- 
portions with other parts of the vifage ; particularly 
the inexpreffible majefty, feverity, and grace. 
We are ftruck with admiration by a beautiful ob- 
ject ! — the graces captivate us ! — That firil degree 
of perfe6fion is the pulcher of the Romans, — the 
fecond is foj^mofuSy or the pulchritudo cum ve- 
nujiate ; or, as Milton has moft emphatically deferib- 
ed our firft mother Eve 
Grace was in all her fteps, Heav’n in her eye, 
In ev’ry gefture dignity and love. 
The Eyebrows, 
The Eyebrows are moving rays, extending crofif- 
ways like a bow, more or lefs curved, from the 
root of the nofe to the outward and foremoft fides 
of the temples : — in concert with the forehead and 
eye-lids. 
