improviso

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Moreover, at this time, as Mr. Payne Collier judges, "extemporal plays," in the nature of the Italian Commedie al improviso, were often presented upon the English stage.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton

You must be careful and give the thing with a downright improviso air.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan

And as we drove towards the city in the evening, our postillion sung improviso verses on his sweetheart, a widow who lived down at Pistoja, they told me.

From Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I by Piozzi, Hester Lynch

The first sonnet opens thus:— "Queste Sonnetti, o Tina, ch' i' hó composto, Me gl' há dettati una Musa buffona, Cantando d' improviso, alla Carlona, Sul suono, spinto dal oalor del Mosto."

From Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850 by Various

"Si nunc primum mortalibus adsint Ex improviso, si sint objecta repente, Nil magis his rebus poterat mirabile dici, Aute minus ante quod auderent fore credere gentes."

From The Essays of Montaigne — Complete by Montaigne, Michel de