NIC 
ircle. The author of this quadrature was {fo confident in 
the merit of his fuppofed difcovery, that he depofited 3000 
livres in the hands of a public notary at Lyons, to = igs 
Nicole undertook the tafk, and fo eheoly ne pacts the au- 
thor’s errors, that the Academ e prize, with- 
out the {malleft beseos. The premium fhe obtained he 
prefented to the Hétel-Dieu of Lyons. 
the Academy nominated him mechanician ; in 1716, adjun& ; 
in 1718, aff 1724, penfioner. He retained 
the Academy of Sciences.’” They are all castorate 
and chiefly in the higher departments of learning: a lift 
put is given in the General Biography. 
LETE, in Geography, a town of Canada, on the 
S.E. en of lake St. Pierre, at the mouth of the river 
egiad) ie runs into this lake, mM lat. 46° 12. W 
gave us a 
aGting. He was a native of Naples; 
ano, but afterwards defcended ints a full 
a 
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im, 1n 
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fight of an actor, who, by the grace and propriety of his 
Bi fture, does honour to the 
aracter he bears in an opera by his aétion 
Every limb and every 
finger contributes to the part he aéts, infomuch that a deaf’ 
man may go along with him in the fenfe of it. There is 
{carce a beautiful pofture in an old ftatue which he dees not 
plant himfelf in, as the different circumftances of the ftor 
give occafion for it. He performs the moft ordinary action 
in a manner fuitable to the greatnefs of his char: ares and 
fhews the prince even in the giving of a pine or difpatching 
of a meflenger. Our beft ators,” co 
fomewhat at a lofs to fu 
& 
In the Pee 1707, ° 
of the e opera 0 
NIC 
advance from it with fuch ageeay of air and mien, as 
feemed to fill the ftage, and at the fame time commanded 
the — of the audience with the majefty of his ap- 
pea 
The 0 ope ra prices were raifed on the arrival of this ait 
former, the firft truly great finger who had ever fung in ou 
theatre, to 15s. for the boxes on the ftage, half a guinea the 
pit and other boxes, and firft gallery five fhillings. Nicolini 
was a phenomenon that occupied the attention at this ti 
of the whole nation; not only fir Richard was has cele- 
brated the majefty of his appearance on t 
ater; but Mr. Addifon, not in very goo hanoue 
operas fo foonafter the failure of his « Rofamond,”’ celebrates 
the abilities of Nicolini as an actor in the SpeCtator, N° 13, 
after feveral humorous papers on the combat with the lion in 
of « Hydafpes,”” with very high and ferious pane- 
gyric. «It gives me a juit indignation,” fays he, ‘to fee 
of : perfon whofe action gives new majefty to kings, refolution 
o heroes, and foftnefs to lovers, thus finking fr rom the 
Fettask of his behaviour, and ai Sir into the character 
of the London ’prentice. I have often wifhed, that our 
tragedians would cop 
era or our own 
d to do juftice 
to the beauty of the words, by following that noble example, 
which has been fet him by the greateft foreign mafters in that 
art.” This is all allufive to the opera of ‘ Calypfo,”’ with the 
fifth performance of which the feafon was clofed, June 25th. 
an actor, after his 
ocal powers were faded, se a new ftyle of finging was 
eftablithed ; for in 1723 we ftill find him at Rome wit 
the Tefi, in Leo’s * Timocrate.’ 
BATE, bor 
has left a very diftinguifhed account, though little or nothing 
exifts of them now but the large fymbolic piCture in the 
Via 
