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PLATE 3. Figure 5.—We may with pity at times observe the change that violent grief has on the mind and frame of a sensitive youth, unaccustomed hitherto to such emotion. A fatal accident may have suddenly deprived him of a dear relative, in whom his being and happiness seemed to be bound up, now hopelessly lost to him for ever.

Figure 6. This may represent Jaffier supplicating Pierre :

"No, thou shalt not force me from thee:

I'll weary out thy most unfriendly cruelty;

Lie at thy feet and kiss them, though they spurn me!"

PLATE 4. Figure 7.-This might represent Fear, as described in Collins's "Ode on the Passions."

"First Fear his hand, its skill to try,
Amid the chords bewilder'd laid,
And back recoil'd, he knew not why,
Ev'n at the sound himself had made."

Figure 8 might stand for the same poet's description of Anger :"Next Anger rush'd, his eyes on fire

In lightnings own'd his secret stings."

Or, if we take the two together, as in one scene, the representative of Fear seems also as much concerned for the unreasonable anger that would appear to actuate his companion, as for any fear of his own safety he stands, as it were, at bay, rather for the purpose of checking, than escaping from, his frantic friend. of fear, however, evidently predominates.

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