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Romanticism

noun

Impractical romantic ideals and attitudes.

A movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization. Synonym: Romantic Movement.

An exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure). Synonym: romance.

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"Romanticism" Quotes from Famous Books

... scented all this crass and forward romanticism between the trivial lines of her communications; "why does she write, when she hasn't got ...

— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller

... literary tastes; but there the resemblance ceases. It was not that there was nothing romantic in Hortense's character; she was among the first to become interested in the Middle Ages, the Gothic revival, the imitation of the troubadours; but her romanticism was wholly different from that of her husband. Her ideal was, perhaps, a young and handsome soldier, pensive when away from the lady of his thoughts, but not when in her company." M. Rville goes on: "Such a character could not ...

— The Court of the Empress Josephine • Imbert de Saint-Amand

... surrender of the cause, but the count was ultra-romantic, ultra-patriotic, ultra-Italian all over in point of fact. Not even for love's sake would he throw over his country, and, oddly enough, it was this bit of romanticism which clinched the ...

— In Direst Peril • David Christie Murray

... call upon them to protect German ways and German customs." The Kaiser's crusading appeals are not hypocritical or consciously insincere: they are simply many centuries out of date—a grotesque medley of medieval romanticism and royal megalomania. What was possible for the warrior knights in North-East Germany five or six centuries ago is a tragic absurdity and an outrageous crime to-day among a spirited and sensitive people like the Poles—still more so in a highly civilised national ...

— The War and Democracy • R.W. Seton-Watson, J. Dover Wilson, Alfred E. Zimmern,

... wrote German with a French accent and a warrior who seems to have wandered out of the pages of mediaeval romance. Yet with all his mock-heroic notoriety, the toller Pueckler was by no means destitute of those practical qualities which tempered the Teutonic Romanticism, even in its earliest and most extravagant developments. He was skilled in all manly exercises, a brave soldier, an intelligent observer, and—his most substantial claim to remembrance—the father of landscape-gardening in Germany, a veritable ...

— Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century • George Paston

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