"Fear is elusive sorrow, shunning pain; / Active--yet, stop'd--it dims the doubtful brain; / Spirit snatch'd inward, stagnating, by dread, / Slow, thro' the limbs, crawls cold, the living lead: / Form'd to the look, that moulds th' assumer's face, / His joints catch tremblings--life's moist strings unbrace; / This road, and that, th' alarmful passion tries, / Halts, in the motion--flutters, in the eyes; / Checks the clipt accent's hesitative way, / And, on th' evasive muscles, hangs delay."
The Art of Acting
At least 4 entries in ESTC (1746, 1753, 1754, 1779).<br>
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Text from <u>The Works of the Late Aaron Hill</u>, 4 vols. (London: Printed for the Benefit of the Family, 1753).<br>
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Copy at Folger Library also consulted. Aaron Hill, <u>The Art of Acting. Part 1. Deriving Rules from a New Principle, for Touching the Passions in a Natural Manner. An Essay of General Use</u>. (London: Printed for J. Osborn, 1746).