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Skelton a sharpe Satirist, but with more rayling and scoffery then became a Poet Lawreat, such among the Greekes were called Pantomimi, with vs Buffons, altogether applying their wits to Scurrillities & other ridiculous matters.
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Mr. Isaac Disraeli, in his work, "Curiosities of Literature," edited by the late Earl of Beaconsfield, thus distinguishes between the _Mimi_ and the _Pantomimi_ of the Ancients.
A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent
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The tragic and the comic masks were among the ornaments of the sepulchral monuments of an _Archmime_ and a _Pantomimi_.
A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent
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The _Pantomimi_ have been confused with the _Mimi_; but they differed in being dancers, not actors; they represent the inevitable development of the mimic art, which, as Ovid says in his _Tristia_, [16] even in its earlier manifestations, enlisted the eye as much as the ear.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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The world when it reckons its saviours should rate high all it owed to the Pantomimi, -- the privileged Pantomimi -- who first dared take license to say in their quips and cranks, in their capers and jests, what had sent all speakers before them to the rack and the faggots.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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_Pantomimi_ that will represent the voices of players. "
A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent
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Bacon and Ben Jonson use the Latin _Pantomimi_ -- "Here be certain
A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent
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_Pantomimi_ they dance over a distracted Comedy of Love. "
A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent
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