Even W., who knew him well and admired him immensely, was struck by his brilliant improvisation.

It is a pity we have let the gift of lyric improvisation die out.

The perpetual improvisation of means, of policy, of expedients, of resources, nothing step by step, everything on the impulse of the moment, the ground never sounded, all risks taken as a whole, the good with the bad, everything chanced on all sides at the same time, the hour, the place, the opportunity, friends, family, liberty, fortune, life,such is the revolutionary conflict.

Impulse N. impulse, sudden thought; impromptu, improvisation; inspiration, flash, spurt.

[Absence of art] nature, state of nature; virgin soil, unweeded garden; neglect &c 460. rough copy &c (plan) 626; germ &c 153; raw material &c 635. improvisation &c (impulse) 612.

He wound up with an improvisation of his own, which I thought was typically British.

Sgricci, Signor: his genius for improvisation.

Taddei, Rosa: her talent for improvisation.

His poems inserted in letters, which make a show of the elegant pretence of improvisation, but in reality already display a great dexterity in rhyming and in the use of imagery, may be compared to Hagedorn's poetry; but at the same time Goethe is trying to attain the serious tone of the "Pindarian" odes, just as Haller's stilted scholarly poetry conquered a place beside Hagedorn's Epicurean philosophy of life.

At these times she produces on one the effect of an improvisation.

It is there, and there alone, that we come face to face with the real man, in his unguarded moments, in his hours of inspiration, in the laborious effort to solve a problem of composition, or in the happy flow of genial improvisation.

The Italian festa of to-day, usually, as in ancient times, linked to some religious festival, is a scene of gaiety, bright dresses, music, dancing, bonfires, races, and improvisation or mummery; and all that we know of the ancient rural festivals of Italy suggests that they were of much the same lively and genial character.

About the time of Sulla the mimes seem to have displaced these old farces in popular favour, perhaps because their fun was more varied; the mere fact that the actors did not wear masks shows that the improvisation could be freer and less stereotyped.

Thus the mime was lifted from the level of the lowest farcical improvisation to a recognised position in literature, and quite incidentally became useful in education.

Against these prepared novelties the Allies have had to improvise, and on the whole the improvisation has kept pace with the demands made upon it.

" This he did, and the effect was superb, and no doubt the deceased did turn over in his grave, for the improvisation called into play every pipe on the whole instrument.

She postured before him in an attitude of love, and commenced an improvisation in song about him.

She is not so much a poet, has little of George Sand's power of improvisation, much less of eloquence and abandon.

Lyric composition through improvisation.

SCHLIEDER, MABEL P. Lyric composition through improvisation.

FUSS, CARL W. The art of improvisation.

The art of improvisation.

The author is assuredly far nearer the mark in another place when he speaks of "that immense improvisation which is the French Revolution" (ii.

35)an improvisation of which every step can be rationally explained.

" It is evident from these words, all of which belong to the ancient language, that the distinction between the one who composed the poems and those who sang them was well established, and that the Nahuatl poetry was, therefore, something much above mere improvisation, as some have thought.