• 1769 J. Usher Clio (ed. 2) 82 Innocent and virtuous love. . .inspires us with heroic
    sentiments,..a contempt of life, a boldness for enterprize, chastity, and purity of
    sentiment. . . People whose breasts are dulled with vice, or stupified by nature,
    call this passion romantic love; but when it was the mode, it was the diagnostic of
    a virtuous age.