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With a maik, and confequently could exprefs 

 nothing of that continual altcraiion which arifes 

 in the countenance. In procefs of time thefe 

 geftures were accompanied by indecent expref- 

 iions, witr.sr:s the mimes of Laherius, which 

 licentious comedies, and which carried 

 thcic exiii bilious to ihc heigth of extravagance. 



XV. A man of genius in the prefent age, M. 

 Rich of London, undertook to rc-eftablim thefe 

 pantomimes of the ancients on his theatre; to 

 fupply what was deficient, and to give them the 

 vflion of which they feemed capable. 

 1 le made choice of happy fub'jects fo'r thefe re- 

 ions ; he la'ui uiide, with good reafon, 

 the maik -, he collected the moft able aclors ; 

 he flip-ported the reprcfentation, from the be- 

 ginning to the end, by an accompanyment of 

 divcrfiSed and very expreffive inltrumental mu- 

 fic i to all this lie added dances, the (hiking 

 po\ver of decorations, and the almolt miracul- 

 ous power of machinery. % the afiiftance of 

 all theie reiburces he has at length made the 

 pantomime an amufir.g entertainment. He has 

 beer. -nitated by M. Nicolini an Italian, 



at Brunfwick. We have fccn with great plea- 

 furc, the birth or Harlequin , Harlequin in 

 ,!artz-, and many other charm- 

 ing pieces of this kind : but as thefe performan- 

 ces fpeak more to ti. ;i to the u: 

 ftan- .e cannot lee -Jie;n not- 

 withlt.inding their charming 



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