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1866 C. M. Yonge Dove in Eagle's Nest II. ii. 41 Good substantial wedded affection
was not lacking, but romantic love was thought an unnecessary preliminary, and found
a vent in extravagant adoration not always in reputable quarters.

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1858 Lytton What will he do with It? (1859) III. vii. xiv. 135 (heading) Romantic
Love pathologically regarded by Frank Vance and Alban Morley.

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1854 Ruskin Lect. Archit. & Paint; ii. 65 You feel that armour is romantic, because
it is a beautiful dress, and you are not used to it.

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1813 Scott Trierm. i. xix, Yet e'en in that romantic age, Ne'er were such charms by
mortal seen.

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1806 Byron Fugitive Pieces 23 And friendships were form'd, too romantic to last.

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1778 S. Tighe Let. 2 Apr. in G. H. Bell Hamwood Papers (1930) 27 There were no gentlemen
concerned, nor does it appear to be anything more than a scheme of Romantic Friendship.

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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.

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1766 Goldsm. Vic. W. i, The girl was. . .called Sophia; so that we had two romantic
names in the family.

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1754 R. Berenger in World 4 July 474, I know several unmarried ladies, who in all
probability had been. . .good wives and. . .mothers, if their imaginations had not
been early perverted with the chimerical ideas of romantic love,..upon which principle,
a footman may as well be the hero as his master.

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1728 F. Hutcheson Ess. Passions i. iv. 94 A Romantick Lover has..no Notion of Life
without his Mistress, all Virtue and Merit are summed up in his inviolable Fidelity.

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