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•frighted Perfon, with Hands lifted up, and Fingers 
ftrctch’d far afundcr, dreading the fatal Blow ; or, if 
flying from Danger, with the Hands pufh’d forward, 
and looking back at the Objeft that affrights; which 
kind of Fear may be excited by Imagination, as well 
as by real Obje&s. Thus Virgil : 
Objlupuit , retroque pedem cum voce reprejjit : 
Improvifum ajpris veluti qui fentibus anguem 
PreJJit humi nitens , trepidufque repent e refugit 
Attollentem iras , et camlet coll a tumentem . 
And again : 
Nunc omnes terrent aura, fonus excitat omnis 
Sufpenfum . Virg. ^En. /.II, 
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If, in this State of Fear, the Countenance inclines 
to a livid Colour, it is no great Wonder, fince the 
whole Mafs of Blood, after the firft Surprize, grows 
languid ; for, being pufhed with great Force to the 
Extremities, it fuddenly lofes that Momentum. , and, 
as it were, ftagnates in the minute Capillaries on the 
Surface, immediately after 5 and then the Blood is, 
as the fame muftcal Poet has it, 
focus fubita gelidus formidine fanguis 
Diriguit : c e cider e animi , 
Except in Flight, where the Exercife ought to in- 
crcafe the Momentum continually, and heat the Mafs ; 
then, indeed, the Countenance is florid, notwitlv 
(landing the Terror. Thus the Beauty of "Daphne 
was 
