"Rigadoon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... more melting tune Bow Irish jig and ancient rigadoon. Scotch reels, avaunt! and country dance forego Your future claims to each fantastic toe! Waltz, Waltz alone, both legs and arms demands, Liberal of feet, and lavish of her hands; Hands which may freely range in public sight Where ne'er before—but—pray "put out the light". Methinks ...
— English Satires • Various
... you fleer me! his lordship among revellers! oh! the blest prodigy! well, well, I give no promise, mark; but should a certain damsel lack a partner, adod. I know not—sixty-live shows with an ill-grace in a rigadoon, but for a minuet: well, well, St. Vitus strengthen me, and ...
— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Volume I, Number 1 • Stephen Cullen Carpenter |
