The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1830)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : Printed for William Reeves · leaf 284
re the applause of the wealthy or thevulgar. VIL—EXEMPLIFICATION OF GLEEMENS DANCES. We have already noticed a dance, represented by the en-graving No. 50, from a painting- of the tenth century, the mostancient of the kind that I have met wi(h.^ The crouching atti-tudes of the two dancers, point… … 58. Gleemens Dance.—IX. Cekturt. Here, also, we find a young man dancing singly to the musicof two flutes and a lyre; and the action attempted to be ex-pressed by the artist is rather that of ease and elegancy of mo-tion, than of leaping, or contorting of the body in a violentmanner. It is evident…
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