 | Leigh Hunt - 1894 - 316 lehte
...he has kept so continual a jerking and nodding of the head, that at last, if he represented anything at all, it could be nothing but Saint Vitus's dance....describe their sensations critically : irrationalities amuse in farce only. An audience when judging the common imitations of life have merely to say " Is... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1910 - 394 lehte
...he has kept so continual a jerking and nodding of the head, that at last if he represented anything at all, it could be nothing but Saint Vitus's dance...describe their sensations critically : irrationalities amuse in farce only. An audience when judging the common imitations of life have merely to say, " Is... | |
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Vitus's dance : by this study of nonentities it would appear that he never pulls out his handkerchief without a design upon the audience, that he has as much thought in making a step as making a speech, in short that his very finger is eloquent and that... 