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completeft deception, and we cannot but recollect at 

 the fame time, the two-fold pleafure that actor gave 

 us. In like manner, a double fatisfaction arifes from 

 hence, that thefe perfons are not ladies, but ladies re- 

 prefented. The young man has ftudied the peculiari- 

 ties of the female fex in their whole manner and de- 

 portment ; he underitands them, and exhibits them to 

 our view in quality of an artift ; he acts not himfelf, 

 but a third, and properly a foreign nature. We ente'r 

 fo much the more deeply into this reprefentation, as 

 every one has obferved them, every one has confidered 

 them, and it is not the fubject, but the refult of the 

 fubject, that is reprefented before us. 



Now, a? all art is thus eminently diftinguifhed from 

 limple imitation ; fo it is natural that at fuch a repre - 

 fentation we fhould feel a peculiar kind of pleafure, 

 and overlook many imperfections in the execution of 

 the whole. 



It mult indeed be necejTarily underflaod, as was 

 hinted above, that the parts muft be fui table to this 

 kind of acting. 



Thus the public could not refufe a general applaufe 

 to the Locandiera of Goldoni. 



The young man who reprefented the hoftefs, exhi- 

 bited the various fhades of the character as accurately 

 as poffible. The fedate coldnefs of - the girl, who is 

 active and induftrious in her affairs, is civil, friendly, 

 and officious to all, but has no mind either to love or 

 to be beloved, Hill lefs is difpofed to hearken to the 

 amorous paffions of her principal gueits ; the private 

 tender coquetteries by which fhe contrives to captivate 

 her male vifitors; the wounded pride fhe Ihews on 



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