t, and the whole body together. The arms are
violently bent at the elbows, and the fists strongly clenched. The voice
is uttered in groans, lamentations, and violent screams. Extreme torture
produces fainting, and death.
_Fatigue_ from severe labour, gives a general languor to the whole body.
The countenance is dejected. (See _Grief_.) The arms hang listless; the
body (if sitting or lying along be not the posture) stoops, as in
old-age. (See _Dotage_.) The legs, if walking, are dragged heavily
along, and seem at every step ready to bend under the weight of the
body. The voice is weak, and the words hardly enough articulated to be
understood.
_Aversion_, or _Hatred_, expressed to, or of any person or thing, that
is odious to the speaker, occasions his drawing back, as avoiding the
approach of what he hates; the hands, at the same time, thrown out
spread, as if to keep it off. The face turned away from that side toward
which the hands are thrown out; the eyes looking angrily and asquint the
same way the hands are directed; the eyebrows drawn downwards; the upper
lip disdainfully drawn up; but the teeth set. The pitch of the voice
loud; the tone chiding, unequal, surly, vehement. The sentences short
and abrupt.
_Commendation_, or _Approbation_ from a superior, puts on the aspect of
love (excluding desire and respect) and expresses itself in a mild tone
of voice; the arms gently spread; the palms of the hands toward the
person approved. Exhorting or encouraging, as of an army by a general,
is expressed with some part of the looks and action of courage.
_Jealousy_ would be likely to be well expressed by one, who had often
seen prisoners tortured in the dungeons of the inquisition, or who had
seen what the dungeons of the inquisition are the best earthly emblem
of; I mean Hell. For next to being in the Pope's or in Satan's prison,
is the torture of him who is possessed with the spirit of jealousy.
Being a mixture of passions directly contrary to one another, the
person, whose soul is the seat of such confusion and tumult, must be in
as much greater misery than Prometheus, with the vulture tearing his
liver, as the pains of the mind are greater than those of the body.
Jealousy is a ferment of love, hatred, hope, fear, shame, anxiety,
suspicion, grief, pity, envy, pride, rage, cruelty, vengeance, madness,
and if there be any other tormenting passion which can agitate the human
mind. Therefore to express jealousy well, r
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