| 单词 | extravagancy |
| 例句 | In your author’s note at the end of the book, you write that you used “fictive techniques” and “committed other extravagancies” in writing it. ArtsBeat: A Macabre Mystery: Poe Ballantine Talks About Memoir and True Crime 2013-09-04T20:44:29Z Gilbert: There’s a level of rebellion in Marie in the beginning that shows in her extravagancy of wigs and wardrobe. “Marie Antoinette” at Woolly: Losing her head again The restructure cut the department from 150 volunteers to 28 full-time firefighters, consequently ending the era of hose companies and the accompanying extravagancies. Business owner donates 120-year-old fireman’s coat 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Here no cold Herrera portal usurps some lovely pointed work and Churrigueresque extravagancies are not prominent: the late restorations have followed the first plans. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z These utterances will hardly be deemed poetical extravagancies to one who has read such things as the Ninetieth Psalm, "King Lear," or "The Deserted Village," or "Elaine." Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z All these extravagancies are not more difficult to believe than many other wonders related in the acknowledged gospels. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z It can often be proved, when any of them exhibit marked extravagancy, that such extravagancy dates back as far as the second or third century. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z You will probably rise up, after reading this letter, quite incredulous, and with the conviction in your mind that you have been reading the extravagancies of a madman. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z With Pitt these extravagancies had only been the frolics of genius. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z These women were taken before the Inquisition of Logro�o, and confessed the greatest extravagancies. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z There is an unfairness and misrepresentation about them which is significant of how the poet's poses and extravagancies had prejudiced the public mind. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z In this breaking up of erroneous systems, there is danger of extremes and extravagancies, more to be dreaded, perhaps, than the old errors themselves. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z But the question at issue is, whether visions, dreams, extravagancies, &c. are signs of divine inspiration. Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul 2011-11-24T03:00:45.230Z He had committed some few extravagancies from time to time, and had broken down once or twice in a discourse; but it had never been supposed that his eccentricity had danger in it. A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest 2011-10-12T02:00:51.367Z And to entertain an audience perpetually with humour, is to carry them from the conversation of gentlemen, and treat them with the follies and extravagancies of Bedlam. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z The revenue was, as usual, unequal to meet the extravagancies of the royal family, and so was added every succeeding year an increase to the already immense "NATIONAL DEBT." Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z Sir, you will pardon my extravagancies in these relations. Letters to Severall Persons of Honour 2011-09-12T02:00:24.913Z His apostrophe to Lake Ontario, several hundred lines in length, has many fine fancies, but his luxuriant imagination continually wrecks itself on extravagancies which break down the effect. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z Mr. Overman was an extreme Radical, “but his political extravagancies were amply condoned by his warmth and kindliness of heart.” Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z In the mean while, the innkeeper acquainted all those that were in the house with the extravagancies of his guest, his watching his arms, and his hopes of being made a knight. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z The fits have gradually become weaker and weaker, the fever is now gone, but I am still to suffer for the extravagancies committed during its delirium. Leonora 2011-03-22T02:00:21.627Z The extravagancies of youth were punished with the same severity as murder or parricide. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Cicero said that “men, having exhausted all the mad extravagancies they are capable of, have yet never entertained the idea of eating the God whom they adore.” Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays 2011-03-12T03:00:23.783Z But such extravagancies are studiously repudiated and repressed by the school to which young Rapid belongs. Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z Hang it, sir, I've been very proud of you and very fond of you, but for your confounded follies and extravagancies, and wild oats, sir, which I hope you've sown. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z Lucretius bears testimony to the truth of this in the vivid picture he draws of the extravagancies which characterized the festival of Cybele. Roman Women During this interval a thousand extravagancies are practised by either sex. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time Lilly’s Memoirs record many of his impostures, and there is no doubt but in his time the public mind was much agitated by his extravagancies. A Morning's Walk from London to Kew And pleasure is one of the narrowest fields of human experience conceivable, becoming quickly monotonous, which accounts for many extravagancies and abnormalities among the rich. Clark's Field The town has been more occupied this week with Dudley’s extravagancies than the affairs of Europe. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II And it must be remembered when we consider Socialism’s early extravagancies, that any idea or system of ideas which challenges the existing system is necessarily, in relation to that system, outcast. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism Voltaire expresses his wonder, that our author's extravagancies are endured by a nation which has seen the tragedy of Cato. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare The test phrase "theotokos," invaluable as a protest against Nestorianism, became a precedent for all sorts of doctrinal extravagancies. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology It is perfectly commonplace; and it is the critic's warm-heartedness which betrays him into these extravagancies of language. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 Wherefore, they, looking upon what the captains did to be, as they called it, a fruit of the extravagancy of their wild and foolish fancies, rather despised them than feared them.' Bunyan “Captain Masterson is most loyal and zealous, but given to slight extravagancies in such matters,” amended the Judge. The Bondwoman The desire of being thought superior to the rest of his fellows sometimes, indeed, leads a man into strange extravagancies. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton Accompanying them were the extravagancies of hope and fear incident to the early consideration of every suggested change in a long-accepted social order. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III These and the like defections, on the one hand, together with many extravagancies on the other, have brought the godly into many confusions. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies When such extravagancies of feeling and language are indulged in the hearing of kings and their advisers, they should be received as warnings to resist, and not to submit. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 Thus, after all his wild extravagancies about inherent, inalienable, and equal rights, Dr. Channing has, in one of his calmer moods, recognized this great fundamental truth. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject In exchange for the "noble extravagancies" of his love she could bring him only "anxiety and more sadness than he was born to." Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Bacchanalian dances, which have originated in similar causes among all the rude nations of the earth, and the wild extravagancies of a heated imagination, were the constant accompaniments of this half-heathen, half-Christian festival. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 Their extravagancies of expression were by no means an unremarkable feature. Reminiscences of two years with the colored troops Personal Narratives of events in the War of the Rebellion, being papers read before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society. No. 7, Second Series Abandoning the monstrous extravagancies and uncouth buffoonery of his predecessors, he took Homer for his guide, and composed pieces which for boldness and terrible sublimity have never been surpassed. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 Amongst all the extravagancies of human nature, never yet did we hear of a person who harboured a sentiment of private malice against Time for moving too rapidly, or against Space for being infinitely divisible. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 A more curious extravagancy was uttered to me by a professor of applied mathematics. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life Every thing must appear as natural as possible, even amidst the grimaces, contortions, and extravagancies of the character. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing Mr. Smith opposed the resolution in a speech which, if it added nothing to the arguments, contributed, by its good humored personalities and its harmless extravagancies, to the amusement of the auditors. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States When the Roman Empire was staggering to its ruin amid the extravagancies of its corrupt emperors, not one of them ever gave a banquet which approximated half the cost of this. The Root of Evil What money I had I must keep for myself, to pay for ‘little extravagancies’. The Lady of the Basement Flat With all my fantastic extravagancies, I only spend a small part of my income. The Crooked House This monarch reigned for the space of five years, with tolerable credit to himself, but then gave way to the greatest extravagancy of temper, and to the most atrocious barbarities. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs Soon he began to stagger, to whine fearfully, to roll up the whites of his eyes, to loll out his tongue, to shout, and to act a thousand other extravagancies. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 He was known to be a widower, and the woful extravagancies into which Mary Madeline Mumbles cajoled her doting mother, were enough to make one shudder in relating. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems At the age of fifteen he published a volume called "Poetic Blossoms," which he afterwards described as "commendable extravagancies in a boy." The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Over and above his wild extravagancies, he was credited with vices that remained unnamed. The Crooked House Their zeal transported them to some extravagancies, which laid them still more open to the lash of their enemies, who exercised various severities upon them throughout the next reign. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs Contempt for empiricism, scepticism, the extravagancies of religious metaphysics which finally become mythology, have their origin here. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Interminable as are the incoherencies, inconsistencies, and extravagancies of the Hindoo sacred writings, on no subject, perhaps, is the multiplicity of varying accounts and discrepancies more astonishing than on the present. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity On this ground I am compelled to censure the extravagancies, that are wide-spread especially in Germany, of the Froebel methods of occupying young children. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. Numberless were the extravagancies which broke out among the people. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell But as he proceeds further in his work, his talent becoming duller—his extravagancies are worse sustained and scarcely ever original. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 Fourthly, through the consolidation effected in the Church by the rule of faith the Christian religion was in some measure preserved from enthusiastic extravagancies and arbitrary misinterpretation. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Start not at the use of terms, rendered suspicious by the extravagancies of which they have been made the vehicle. The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society How exactly this answers the wild extravagancies of our Enthusiasts, let themselves judge. The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan But it was not lies or arguments on our part which dethroned them, but their own foolish acts, sedition-laws, alien-laws, taxes, extravagancies, and heresies. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 He returned to England upon the restoration of King Charles the IId, and was made captain of the band of pensioners, an honour which tempted him to some extravagancies. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II Some of Lee's extravagancies are lamentable exceptions to this observation. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 The reader's discernment will discover some similar extravagancies in the language of Almeyda and the Emperor. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 Should we not directly, and without hesitation, attribute such extravagancies to hallucination of mind? The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old Fye, friend, these extravagancies are a breach of articles in our friendship. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 His pleasant extravagancies soon became the subject of general conversation, by which his vanity was at once flattered, and his turn of satire rendered more keen, by the success it met with. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II Like most religious revivals, this movement gave rise to extravagancies and dissensions. History of Holland He took no notice of his extravagancies, and sometimes heard him swear without seeming to regard it. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 No enthusiasm ever reached to such a pitch of extravagancy as that: a spirit may be an illusion; a body is a real thing, an object of sense, in which there can be no mistake. Evidence of Christianity But remember one article of our friendship, that though we banish love, we do not mirth, nor gallantly; for I declare, I am for all extravagancies, but just loving. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 They were, happily, only errors, not sins—extravagancies in dress; amusements and dissipations, resulting in serious expenses; but the young fellow had done nothing absolutely wicked. A Noble Life The impiety of them was acceptable to men of corrupt minds, which were but too much prepared to receive them by the extravagancies of the late times. Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagancies, and a perpetual train of vanities, which pass through both. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Who take the lead in all the extravagancies of the age? The Revelation Explained Dryden's apology for these extravagancies seems to be, that Almanzor is in a passion. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 Either transports us on the least check into wicked extravagancies, which are fatal in their consequences, and suddenly overwhelm us with both shame and ruin. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences The Secretary thought I was always looking on the dark side and prophesying evil, because I frequently remonstrated with him on the many extravagancies which were constantly being added to the establishment. History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome Indeed, my dear, I never spent it in extravagancies. Trial of Mary Blandy At last the affair assumed so grave an aspect, that the pope and many secular princes declared themselves against the Flagellants, and speedily put an end to their extravagancies. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 554, June 30, 1832 If this opinion should be thought one of the wild extravagancies of enthusiasm, I shall only say, that those who censure it are not conversant in the works of the great masters. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler Whenever he was in drink, he would launch out into unaccountable extravagancies both in words and actions. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Voltaire expresses his wonder, that our author's extravagancies are endured by a nation, which has seen the tragedy of Cato. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing of blind-sides, and little extravagancies; to which, the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author In its details, however, the extravagancies of the middle ages, and the often elegant frivolities of the cinque cento period, have been avoided, and the breadth and simplicity of Greek models have still been followed. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832 She burst into tears of transport, blessed the physician in the most emphatic and impassioned terms, and uttered a thousand extravagancies. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are Yet he was far from giving over those extravagancies the earnest desire of committing which had brought him to town; for nobody in his station made so handsome a figure as Mr. Turner. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences That must have been the most important period of his life, and was surely more worthy of record than the metaphysical dreams or the poetical extravagancies of his boyhood. Famous Reviews His were the trifling faults that had their origin chiefly in the joy of life, which manifest occasionally in riotous extravagancies, of a sort actually to harm none, however absurd and useless they may be. Within the Law A human being, suddenly emancipated from a state of subjection, if we may not call it slavery, and transported into a state of freedom, must be expected to be guilty of some extravagancies and follies. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author It is your part," said he to the convention, "to prevent the follies and extravagancies which coincide with the projects of foreign conspiracy. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 My extravagancies, Bella!—But did my father ever give me any thing he did not give you? Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 And to hear him defend any of his extravagancies, it would appear that he considered himself especially privileged in that respect. Adela Cathcart, Volume 2 Men would laugh at the folly of the author; presently his book, together with his name, would be known only by its ridiculous extravagancies. The System of Nature, Volume 2 Ma foi, will life never learn to improve upon the extravagancies of romance? Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes My partiality to female society led me into many extravagancies, and into some difficulties; for I could not pay moderate attention to a lady. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 Another of your hook-in's, Clary!—So that all your extravagancies have been supported gratis. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 Godwin's and Condorcet's extravagancies were not worth confuting; and yet I thought that the Essay on 'Population' had not confuted them. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Does not their more sober judgment unceasingly condemn the extravagancies to which their undisciplined passions deliver them up? The System of Nature, Volume 2 Godwin's and Condorcet's extravagancies were not worth confuting; and yet I thought that the Essay on "Population" had not confuted them. Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. How weighty the sovereign's influence was may be gathered from the extravagancies into which the Neronian and Flavian authors fell through anxiety to please monarchs of corrupt taste. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Thus extravagancies, imagined by knaves or idolatrous visionaries, are still sacred among Christians! Good Sense They lived in a vigorous age, which more willingly pardoned extravagancies of every description than feeblenesss and frigidity. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature The very extravagancies he speaks of as so rife and so rampant are to us evidence of the contrary. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 Slavery once abolished, the small proprietors, who at present carry all the criminal extravagancies of the South further than any others, will be compelled to set their hands to work. The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States. Damon quitted the house in raptures, and was no sooner seated in the chariot, than he pressed his friend repeatedly to his breast, and committed a thousand extravagancies of joy. Damon and Delia A Tale For my part, I can say, I was truly shocked with the extravagancies I witnessed, in the way of worship, in most of the countries I visited. Home as Found For the practical artist, however, and the critical judge of dramatic poetry, an infinite deal may be learned from them; as well from their merits as their extravagancies. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Such extravagancies have accompanied every great moral movement of mankind. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 There, indeed, it wages an eternal war; and, if not contracted and strictly regulated, it will carry the patient into endless extravagancies. Thaumaturgia He that from affectation imitates the extravagancies recorded of Don Quixote, is an impostor equally wicked and contemptible. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves True, they might disown the errors and extravagancies of the sects, and declare that they themselves were as little in sympathy with them as the Presbyterians. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 Since your withdrawing from this place, the fair sex are run into great extravagancies. The Coverley Papers It made a clever caricature--had a great run--has been superseded by other follies and extravagancies, and is now nearly forgotten. Nature and Human Nature The tom-fooleries and extravagancies of dress introduced by Charles II, are here justly and contemptuously described. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 When the extravagancies of servants are not discountenanced and rebuked by their superiors, and the contrary taught them by word and life. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 It is a delightful book however, and the character of the heroine, Arabella, is invested with a charm which never, even in the midst of her wildest extravagancies, fails to make itself felt.-ED. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 Neither was his whole time devoted to the riotous extravagancies of youth. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Together with its extravagancies and lyricism, Romantic literature deliberately put into practice some important principles which certain forerunners of the eighteenth century had already unconsciously illustrated or timidly taught. Balzac Ay, and I fear that even their extravagancies in this hath hardened the heart of many a one, as I perceive it did somewhat the heart of Mr. Badman himself. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 Wherefore, professors, beware, and take heed to your spirits, and see that you let not out yourselves under your sufferings in such extravagancies of spirit against your enemies as is no way seemly nor convenient. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 The girl looked like a vivid portrait, the soft colors of her gown and all the cool, vivid extravagancies of youth distinguished in her. The Sleuth of St. James's Square At the same time he was kept from the extravagancies of his day. Meditations They added, that I had squandered four thousand florins in six days at Prague; that it would be proper to appoint guardians to impede such extravagancies. The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2 These extravagancies had a great effect on the people; and the more so because they were espoused by Squire Guelf's steward, who was the most influential person in the parish. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 An unwise Book; abounding in exaggeration; breaking out continually into extraneous sallies and extravagancies,—the source of which is too plainly an immense conceit of oneself. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 The extravagancies of social Darwinism provoked a useful reaction; and thus people were led to seek, even in the animal kingdom, for facts of solidarity which would serve to justify humane effort. Darwin and Modern Science Bacchanalian dances, which have originated in similar causes among all the rude nations of the earth, and the wild extravagancies of a heated imagination, were the constant accompaniments of this half-heathen, half-Christian festival. The Black Death The Dancing Mania No, sooth, sir; my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy. Twelfth Night No, 'sooth, sir; my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy. Twelfth Night And all the strength and wealth of nations were diverted to private expense and personal caprice; and kings, fatigued with gratification, abandoned themselves to all the extravagancies of factitious and depraved taste.* The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature He lived simply, without other extravagancies than a carriage by the year and a sumptuous apartment. Ursula No, sooth, sir; my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy. Twelfth Night; or What You Will |
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