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Essays on the anatomy of expression in painting (1806)

Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774-1842 · London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme · leaf 158

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150 OF WEEPING. … I ha\e thrown the expression of weeping, from pain, into the face of a fawn : for laying aside the tear of sensibility and grief, there is in weeping something inexpressibly mean and ludicrous when it appeai-s in the countenance of a man. In the violence of weeping, accompanied with lamentation and…

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