You see the Devil could fetch up nothing of Samuel at the request of Saul, but a shadow and a resemblance, his countenance and his mantle, which yet was not enough to cover the cheat, or to palliate the illusion.—South, Sermon on Easter Day.
The generality of Christians make the external frame of religion but a palliation for sin.—H. More, Grand Mystery of Godliness, p. ix.
Pantomime.—Now the mimic show itself, but at the first introduction of the word (Bacon’s constant use of ‘pantomimus’ and ‘pantomimi,’ and Ben Jonson’s as well, testify that it was new in their time), the player who presented the show.
I would our pantomimes also and stage-players would examine themselves and their callings by this rule.—Sanderson, Sermon on 1 Cor. vii. 24.
The hypocrite cometh forth in a disguise, and acteth his part, and because men applaud him, thinketh God is of their mind, as the pantomime in Seneca, who observing the people well pleased with his dancing, did every day go up into the Capitol and dance before Jupiter, and was persuaded that he was also delighted in him.—Faringdon, Sermon 10.
Not that I think those pantomimes,
Who vary actions with the times,
Are less ingenious in their art
Than those who dully act one part.
Butler, Hudibras, p. 3, can. 2.