no 
lavater’s 
Pleafant feelings are marked by infinite ways 5 
gellures, dancing, &c. Immoderate fits of laughter 
produce diftortions worthy of notice ; for when we 
are ready to fplit our fides, the veins of the neck 
and face fwell j the mufcles are puffed up ; the eye- 
brows rife from the middle of the upper lid, and 
fall downwards about the nofe ; the eyes are al- 
moft fhut j the mouth, half open, difcovers the teeth ; 
the corners of the lips ftretch upwards ; the cheeks 
are ftrained, and the eyes appear to diffolve in 
tears j the blood flies up into the face, and while 
the head is kept backward, the whole body bends 
a little forward, and the arms, extended, fall upon 
the flank. 
It follows, of courfe, that when a young painter 
is to reprefent rage and defpair, he mult not forget 
any attitude that accompanies a wild and frantic 
look, — the body forward, the upright threatening 
head, the hands clenched, unlefs they are armed ; 
a wrinkled forehead, felf-biting lips, with their 
corners half open, to exprefs the grinning, bitter, 
cruel, and difdainful feoff. During fuch a Itorm as 
he would Itrive to retrace, the living object alter- 
nately changes colour, the upper veins are puffed 
up, and, as we have before obferved, he appears 
pale as a ghofl, and partly raving like a lunatic. 
Thefe are the fad extremes, againll which Reafon 
does not always fufficiently guard the belt of men. 
ESSAY 
