"Energumen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... regales us with his equivocal stories, with the miracles of the convulsionnaires which he has seen with his own eyes, and with some cantos of a poem on a subject that he knows thoroughly. His verses I detest, but I love to hear him recite them—he has the air of an energumen. They all cry out around him: "There is a poet worth ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists - Volume II. • John Morley |
