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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 172

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142 … IV. WONDER, ASTONISHMENT, FEAR, TERROR, HORROR, DESPAIR. I class these together as nearly allied in expression, and as frequently combined. Wonder is that state of the mind in which the senses or appre- hension are more satisfied than the understanding, in which there is

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