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style in several comic operas, which have
had great success, particularly, Le Mare-
chal Ferrant, Le Bucheron, Le Sorcier,
and Tom Jones. He likewise composed
a serious opera, called Ernelinde, which
is much admired by the lovers of Italian
melody, but the frequenters of the great
opera house of Paris are not yet suffici-
ently weaned from Lulli and Romeau
to give great encouragement to such
attempts.
The whole was finished by Beatus Vir,
a motet, in grand chorus, with solo and
duet parts between. The principal
counter-tenor had a solo verse in it which
he bellowed out with as much violence
as if he had done it for life, while a
knife was at his throat. But though
this wholly stunned me, I plainly saw,
by the smiles of ineffable satisfaction
which were visible in the countenances
of ninety-nine out of a hundred of the
company, and heard, by the most violent
applause that a ravished audience could
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