capriccios

One of the masters of capriccios was Giovanni Paolo Pannini 1691-1765.

Capriccio in Art James Gurney 2009

But they keep up the designation, thinking, doubtless, that their claims may be revived in more favourable times for Jacobites and for popery; and folks who in no way partake of their fantastic capriccios do yet allow it to pass unchallenged, EX COMITATE, if not EX MISERICORDIA. —

Redgauntlet 2008

Ah! they ought to allow for the capriccios of what is, after all, but a better sort of goblin.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

Don't forget the toccatas, fantasias, and capriccios.

Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890

Gerards together, the son performing his capriccios on the plot, and the father slouching on a chair, in his great hat, with pencil and paper, trying very patiently to sketch him.

The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849

She used to smile at my capriccios; and once she kissed me -- actually.

A Simpleton Charles Reade 1849

Mr. Keats, and is much more free from blemishes of diction and hasty capriccios of fancy ….

Spare Hours John Brown 1846

"Poor fellow!" thought Vivian, "I fear, with all thy wit and pleasantry, thou art, after all, but one of those capriccios which Nature sometimes indulges in, merely to show how superior is her accustomed order to eccentricities, even accompanied with rare powers."

Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842

_ Ah! they ought to allow for the capriccios of what is, after all, but a better sort of goblin.

The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

But they keep up the designation, thinking, doubtless, that their claims may be revived in more favourable times for Jacobites and for popery; and folks who in no way partake of their fantastic capriccios do yet allow it to pass unchallenged, EX COMITATE, if not EX

Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801