This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...atlas.1 He says of admiration--" This passion causing but little agitation, alters as little the parts of the face. Still, however, the brows are raised, the eye opens rather more than ordinarily, the pupil stationed exactly half-way between the lids seems fixed upon the object, the mouth is partly opened, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...atlas.1 He says of admiration--" This passion causing but little agitation, alters as little the parts of the face. Still, however, the brows are raised, the eye opens rather more than ordinarily, the pupil stationed exactly half-way between the lids seems fixed upon the object, the mouth is partly opened, and forms no marked change in the cheeks." Lebrun's Plate 4 represents admiration with stupor; but it is not happily drawn, for it rather recalls luxury. The commentary accompanying the face is of more value. " The movements which accompany this passion scarcely differ from those of simple admiration, except that they are more vivid and marked, the eyebrows more elevated, the eyes more open, the pupil further from the lower eyelid and more fixed, the mouth more open, and all parts in much more obvious tension." Plate 5 gives us veneration; but here again the artist is inferior to the man of science. The eyes are too much closed, the head too much inclined; this face might as well represent humility or moral dejection, or still other emotions. The commentary is good. " From admiration is born esteem, and this produces veneration, which, when it has something divine and hidden from the senses as its object, causes us to bow our heads and to lower our brows; the eyes are almost closed and fixed, the mouth shut. These movements are gentle, and produce few changes in the other parts." Plate 6 of Lebrun represents rapture, an almost absolutely intellectual phenomenon, which may be produced 1 Charles Lebrun, Expression des passions de T&me. by different causes. Still, as we associate it indirectly with the expression of religion, it will not be out of place to recall here what Lebrun has said on the subject--"Although rapture has the same object as...
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