improviso

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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

His improviso verses made on a young heir's coming of age are highly capable of restraining such folly, if it is to be restrained: they never yet were printed, I believe.

From Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings by Piozzi, Hester Lynch

"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

One summer Salvator Rosa joined a company of young persons who were curiously addicted to the making of commedie all' improviso.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac