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  • 1960 A. O. Lovejoy in M. H. Abrams Eng. Romantic Poets 15 To be unsophisticated, to
    revert to the mental state of 'simple Indian swains', was the least of the ambitions
    of a German Romantic. . . The greatness of Shakespeare, in the eyes of these Romantics,
    lay in his Universalität;

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  • 1938Oxf. Compan. Mus. 113/1 Despite their sheer musical beauty, his [sc. Brahms's]
    compositions are strongly charged with what may be called an extra-musical emotion;
    hence the classification of their composer as a romantic.

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  • 1933 A. Davidson tr. Praz's Romantic Agony 4 The thirst for the infinite..animates
    the lines of the Romantics.

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  • 1932 W. B. Yeats Words for Music 11 We were the last romantics, chose for theme Traditional
    sanctity and loveliness.

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  • 1927 R. H. Wilenski Mod. Movement in Art 30 Nineteenth-century romantics deliberately
    left out all the features which the admirers of classical painting were accustomed
    to regard as indispensable to art.

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  • 1898 L. Stephen Stud. Biogr. II. iv. 142 The same view..made him dislike Carlyle and
    Froude as romantics, if not charlatans.

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  • 1882 Stevenson in Longman's Mag. I. 77 Walter Scott is out and away the king of the
    romantics.

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  • 1865Reader 3 June 619/1 This enthusiasm for enthusiasm..was natural to the whole race
    of romantics of that day.

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  • 1827 Carlyle in C. E. Norton Two Notebks. of T. Carlyle (1898) 111 Grossi..has written
    a new Epic. . . Grossi is a Romantic.

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  • 1887 Black Sabina Zembra 221 There you are with your romantics again.
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