Human physiology : designed for colleges and the higher classes in schools and for general reading . to you by any portraitpainter. It is related of an artist that, when a royal visitorwas admiring a sketch of the face of a weeping child, he saidto him, has your majesty a mind to see how easy it is tomake this very child laugh ? As the king said that he shouldlike to see it, the artist rubbed out a little at the corners of themouth and on the eyebrows, and added a few strokes to representthe corners of the mouth as raised, and the eyebrows as with-out wrinkles, and the face, which was the mome
Human physiology : designed for colleges and the higher classes in schools and for general reading . to you by any portraitpainter. It is related of an artist that, when a royal visitorwas admiring a sketch of the face of a weeping child, he saidto him, has your majesty a mind to see how easy it is tomake this very child laugh ? As the king said that he shouldlike to see it, the artist rubbed out a little at the corners of themouth and on the eyebrows, and added a few strokes to representthe corners of the mouth as raised, and the eyebrows as with-out wrinkles, and the face, which was the moment before thevery picture of grief, now exhibited a merry laugh. Afterwardhe as readily restored the original expression. Now in thiscase there were the same eyes in the two expressions. The al-terations were made only in the neighboring parts, and thesame eyes were apparently weeping eyes at one time andlaughing ones at another. 332. In Fig. 128 and 129 you can see how much themouth alone aftects the expression of the whole apparent expression of the eye is wholly altered by the. 226 HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY. Prominent agency of the mouth in expression. to do with the expression of the countenance, and hence suchphrases as these are in universal use—a speaking eye; a wildeye ; the witchery of the eye; the eye flashed, &c. But the eyeof itself has no active agency in expression. The muscleswhich move it have, but not to any great extent them I shall speak in another part of this chapter. Theapparent expression which the eye has is merely apparent, andnot real. It results w altogether from the position of the partsabout the eye. This can be proved to you by any portraitpainter. It is related of an artist that, when a royal visitorwas admiring a sketch of the face of a weeping child, he saidto him, has your majesty a mind to see how easy it is tomake this very child laugh ? As the king said that he shouldlike to see it, the artist rubbed out a little at th
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