Rhodomontade

Not a glimpse can you get of the merits or defects of the performers: they are hidden in a profusion of barbarous epithets and wilful rhodomontade.

And do you, Georgy, contrive to tell Penrhyn all the particulars of this drowning affair; for I remember the bare facts being mentioned at Lord Penrhyns, and he will tell them with effect, avoiding rhodomontade without omitting pathos.

He addressed himself directly to his guest with a torrent of rhodomontade; and the young man, reduced to helpless silence and shy, nodded his head at intervals to show that he took an intelligent interest.

“I cannot anſwer for their notions,” ſaid Heurthofen, “but I know, Madame, that owing to this abſurd notion, I narrowly eſcaped greater inconveniences even than thoſe I had paſſed through.” “Poor Heurthofen!” ſaid Madame de Roſenheim, who, though ſhe knew he was rhodomontading, had compaſſion alike for his late eſcape, and preſent confusion—[…]