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."

"“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—[…]"