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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 181

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151 preserved grand and terrific. The hero may still appear though pal- pitating and drained of vigour*. … \ r- * A beautiful example of this, in poetical description, occurs ift the passage where Virgil paints the death of Turnus. Conscious of the opposition of heaven, and how fruitless and unavailing all his efforts are, he shrinks unnerved from every exertion. " His spirits, as in a dream, are all…

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