| 单词 | extemporary |
| 例句 | The translation was no doubt originally extemporary, and varied with the individual translators, but its form gradually became fixed and was ultimately Targum. written down. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z On one occasion she repeated the entire of the baptismal service of the Church of England, and concluded with an extemporary prayer. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z After this, Mr. Duch�, unexpectedly to everybody, struck out into extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z The scanty meal of cheese and oatmeal eaten, and Luke's long extemporary prayer brought to an end, the strangers were taken to one of the two upper rooms. A Little Wizard 2012-02-15T03:00:38.160Z The spinners celebrated their young master's return in the extemporary songs, so common among their countrywomen. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Mr. Cartwright began, almost in a whisper, to utter his extemporary prayer. The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z Then, instead of principles, sir, let me speak of practice: it is now several months since I exchanged the race-course, the billiard-table, and the dice-box, for the course of an extemporary preacher. The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:15.707Z It is surely evident that such elaborate dramatic personages were not extemporary creations thrown off in the heat of the pen. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z If any thing new occur, he may supply it from his own invention; nor will the difference be very apparent between his elaborate and his extemporary compositions. Essays 2011-05-19T02:00:06.077Z She contrived, however, to hush her baby with an extemporary song, which, without alarming the vigilance of the guards, warned her husband from his perilous threshold, and he escaped. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z They both had some imagination; one showed it by extemporary flights of downright romance, and the other by following these with immense eyes and not a syllable of his own from beginning to end. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z This whimsical sort of expiation seems to have attracted the fancy of the Roman youths, who imitated the Etruscan actors; but they improved on the entertainment, by rallying each other in extemporary and jocular lines. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z She was, however, not to be disconcerted, and commenced singing, in extemporary Castilian verse, the praises of friars and religious houses in general. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z Their great affectation of extemporary discourses has made them reject all order and method, which seems so requisite to argument, and without which it is scarcely possible to produce an entire conviction on the mind. Essays 2011-05-19T02:00:06.077Z To test his acquirements they proposed that each should furnish an extemporary line of verse, his own to be the last, and all four ending in the same rhyme. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z He knew that extemporary verses are never approved by any but by the person in whose honor they are written. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z The Roman youth thus learned to imitate their gestures and music, which they accompanied with railing verses delivered in extemporary dialogue. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Formerly, many of them possessed sufficient literary accomplishments to quote largely from esteemed poems, or even to compose extemporary verses, which they would often accompany with the lute. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments I fixed up an extemporary feeding bottle, made of a piece of rubber tubing, a cork and an empty soda water bottle, which we filled with some nice warm milk. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. After this, Mr. Duch�, unexpected to everybody, struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams It was really farcical to see the good old president confer degrees with an attempt at ceremony, which seemed to have no rubric but extemporary convenience, and no purpose but the despatch of business. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 Ennius, perceiving how much the Romans had been delighted with the rude satires poured forth in extemporary dialogue, thought it might be worth his pains to compose satires not to be recited but read. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z So far as the writer remembers, not a single prayer in the whole book begins with that formula so dear to the makers of extemporary forms of devotion, "O Thou." A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer In the afternoon I heard Thekla's step behind my extemporary screen. The Grey Woman and other Tales His lectures were wholly extemporary, or delivered without minutes, and no record was ever made of them by himself. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 In these extemporary and spontaneous effusions, the speaker gives utterance to his hopes and fears, his joys and sorrows. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans The part written out was in iambic verse, but the extemporary dialogue which filled up the scene was in prose, or in the rudest species of versification. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z With which, and in the same breath, I give you my word, he knelt down, as we all did, and began a very miserable jumble of an extemporary prayer. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete To command men thus equipped there were extemporary generals, whose epaulets were obtained from the wardrobe of the Opera Comique. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 In turn, these assumptions lead into a form of historical primitivism in which the products of the first poets were “extemporary effusions,” rudely imitative of pastoral scenes or celebratory of the divine being. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients The extemporary character of their contrivance and expedients, is sufficiently apparent. The History of Tasmania, Volume I He made many speeches in Parliament, which are all printed, but was not very dexterous in making extemporary replies. The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) Thus the bishops themselves were the unwitting instruments of first setting aside a partially liturgic, and introducing instead a wholly extemporary, form of worship into Scotland. The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics "Il improvisatrice," was she styled by her admiring associates, whom she amused by the hour with her extemporary effusions of rhyme. Hubert's Wife A Story for You A liturgy, for example, is intolerable, because it is a slur upon the extemporary effusions of ministers of the Gospel. Milton On the last midsummer evening, while their majesties were taking leave of one another, a company of strolling players were exhibiting in an extemporary theatre, and here Hal incited both the youths to obtain seats. The Armourer's Prentices With the view of properly amusing the foreign legations, à la Franka, the Sultan got up an extemporary theatre, adjoining the splendid pavilion, in which his guests were assembled. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy I have heard him make very effective speeches in the Senate, and elsewhere, that were undoubtedly extemporary. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 The Anti-formalists call it serving God, to stand while their minister utters extemporary prayers, the propriety and suitableness of which must depend on his wisdom and elocution. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel It is pretended that she made an extemporary reply in Greek to the university of Cambridge, who had addressed her in that language. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. Moreover, the case concerning which his clerk was prosing along in the style of a chapel demagogue engaged in extemporary prayer, was an extremely uninteresting one, and he thought hazily of his lunch. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches "We had four poets amongst us, who sang by turns extemporary hymns to freedom." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 The extemporary speaker never gets, or easily loses, the power of precise and accurate thinking or statement, and rarely attains a literary excellence which gives him immortality. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 In delivering his lectures he trusted almost entirely to extemporary elocution. Life of Adam Smith Some in the pulpits of our churches and cathedrals 'shall conceive a long crude extemporary prayer, in reproach of all the prayers which the Church with such admirable prudence and devotion hath been making before. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century It has served an extemporary apprenticeship; it wants no drilling; it never ranks in the awkward squad; it has no left hand, no deaf ear, no blind side. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader The meeting began quietly enough with a long extemporary prayer from the preacher that was more a confident button-holing of the Almighty, and Ishmael began to feel bored and at the same time relieved. Secret Bread So I recited as much of the Burial Service as I could remember, and offered an extemporary prayer. From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa Sublime ideas filled her young mind—always connected with devotional sentiments; extemporary effusions of gratitude, and rhapsodies of praise would burst often from her, when she listened to the birds, or pursued the deer. Mary A Fiction Amongst the many questions discussed by aspirants to pulpit success, perhaps the greatest prominence is given to the relative merits of the written or the extemporary sermon. The Young Priest's Keepsake James VI. had ever regarded with horror and dread the licence of “conceived prayers,” spoken by the minister, and believed to be extemporary or directly inspired. A Short History of Scotland Ovid, the most natural and witty of all Poets; and hence it was that Queen Elizabeth coming into a Grammar-School, made this extemporary Verse. The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) They sat as still and attentive around him, as though before an extemporary preacher. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance “Will not you stay a moment,” asked Phœbus, “and hear me turn the pretty and touching story of Proserpina into extemporary verses?” The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) When the question is probed to the bottom you will find that all advocacy of extemporary preaching resolves itself into an apology for laziness. The Young Priest's Keepsake All points in the system which are doubted, shall be attested by the knight's extemporary oath, for the satisfaction of his readers. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 They gave her what they could—extemporary gifts some of them—a tawdry ring or a flower which she stuck jauntily among the outrageous feathers. The Dark House They live in simple plenty on the produce of their flocks and herds, celebrate their joys and sorrows in extemporary poetry, and seem to be united by the strongest ties of domestic affection. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa Next he preaches a sermon, which, as a rule, is of his own composition, and extemporary, though occasionally he will read the sermon of some well-known pulpit orator. The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) Defence of the system I The first great difficulty against extemporary preaching is that, though a priest studies his subject and maps his plan, he still reckons without his host. The Young Priest's Keepsake "Will not you stay a moment," asked Phoebus, "and hear me turn the pretty and touching story of Proserpina into extemporary verses?" Tanglewood Tales While the Reverend Melchisedech was offering up some extemporary orisons, the Captain found an opportunity of growling in the bridegroom's ear: 'What cheer, my lad, what cheer?' Dombey and Son The service commenced with a hymn, to which succeeded an extemporary prayer. American Notes She was however not to be disconcerted, and commenced singing in extemporary Castilian verse the praises of friars and religious houses in general. Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society The defenders of extemporary preaching must postulate three essentials in any man undertaking the office. The Young Priest's Keepsake It will be well to inform such that the greater part of the poetry sung in the south, and especially in Spain, is extemporary. The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain The consequence was, just as I was getting over the embarrassment of extemporary oration, down came the sash and guillotined me. Tracks of a Rolling Stone It is probable that he succeeded better in his extemporary productions than in those which were the fruit of deliberation. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 My spirits were all in arms, and I played a kind of extemporary prelude. Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman Till the young priest, then, comes to his task as well furnished as a Gladstone or a Bright, the advocates of extemporary speaking are out of count. The Young Priest's Keepsake On the last midsummer evening, while their majesties were taking leave of one another, a company of strolling players were exhibiting in an extemporary theatre, and here Hal incited both the youths to obtain seats. The Armourer's Prentices He was educated first in the country, and then removed to Westminster, where, in 1677, he was chosen a king's scholar, and recommended himself to Busby by his felicity in extemporary epigrams. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 And now you shall hear from me a plain extemporary speech, but so much the truer. The Praise of Folly Since I have been here, I have been much employed in arranging the affairs of the family, which, from the irregular and extemporary manner in which my brother lived, I found in considerable disorder. Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian If the carefully prepared sermon cost as little trouble as the extemporary effort, would the world ever have heard of this discussion? The Young Priest's Keepsake Some years before he entered Parliament, he said that his genius was 'better qualified for the deliberate compositions of the closet, than for the extemporary discourses of the Parliament. Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 It needs must have been extemporary, with such mental preparation as one night may have sufficed to give him. The Life of Cicero Volume One Perceiving that nobody opposed my design, I took the pen and wrote six sorts of hands used among the Arabians, and each specimen contained an extemporary verse or poem in praise of the sultan. Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights Nor was it till the congregation knelt down with one accord for the extemporary prayer that she asked pardon for her sins. A Mummer's Wife The extemporary preacher challenges nature on her own ground. The Young Priest's Keepsake After this, Mr. Duché unexpectedly struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present. Life of George Washington — Volume 01 He despised purely extemporary efforts; he did not believe in them. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders What seemed to be an effort to celebrate his achievements in extemporary verse brought on another fit. Hyacinth Twenty-one of his orations have come down to us, and they are excessively polished and elaborated; but they were written to be read, they were not extemporary. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations Objectors answered I. Those who champion the method of extemporary preaching lay great stress on two points. The Young Priest's Keepsake He wrote essays, squibs, and pamphlets for an extemporary support. Damon and Delia A Tale Almost every one listens with eagerness to extemporary history. The Book of Household Management Twenty- one of his orations have come down to us, and they are excessively polished and elaborated; but they were written to be read; they were not extemporary. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. He never trusted to the impulse of the occasion; he did not believe in extemporary eloquence any more than Daniel Webster, who said there is no such thing. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations You have to spend as much time in gathering and arranging the matter for the extemporary as for the written one. The Young Priest's Keepsake Being called upon to make an extemporary grace before King James, and having ended his last line but one with the word "safe," Jonson finished with the words, "God blesse me, and God blesse Raph." Inns and Taverns of Old London Charlie's sailor experience was very useful; and he shouted advice to Lance, who was tying the extemporary rope round Gertrude, not very easily, owing to the material, and to its being done under water. The Pillars of the House, V1 Choosing only the most necessary garments from her little store, she soon filled her extemporary travelling-bag, and then sat down to write a letter to Robin. Innocent : her fancy and his fact Every one had predilections of their own—some for comedy, others for tragedy; some for extemporary acting, others for Shakespeare. Henrietta's Wish Or, Domineering This is the usual series of evolutions through which an extemporary preacher passes. The Young Priest's Keepsake He was educated first in the country, and then removed to Westminster, where, in 1677, he was chosen a King's Scholar, and recommended himself to Busby by his felicity in extemporary epigrams. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 Alison, though not dead, was perfectly helpless, and was carried down the rocky valley on an extemporary litter, Harold taking his usual share of the labour. My Young Alcides And thereupon after a movement which intimated that all present were kneeling, the presiding voice offered up an extemporary prayer of great power and even eloquence. Sybil, or the Two Nations In Laura's case, no kindly Atropos snipped the thread of her aspirations: these, large, vague, extemporary, one and all achieved fulfilment; then withered off to make room for more. The Getting of Wisdom You are independent of your mood, on which the extemporary preacher has to lean so much. The Young Priest's Keepsake Well, child," continued he, after the applause which follows extemporary verses had subsided, "take me in. Peg Woffington The reading was followed by the General Confession, the Absolution and a brief extemporary prayer, concluding with the Lord's Prayer. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land Presently the preacher, having dealt sufficiently in terrifying generalities, went on to practical illustrations, for, after the manner of his class, he was delivering an extemporary oration. Beatrice The principle upon which extemporary prayer was originally introduced, is no longer admitted. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland |
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