d30e4599 1898 L. Stephen Stud. Biogr. II. iv. 142 The same view..made him dislike Carlyle and Froude as romantics, if not charlatans.
d30e4598 1882 Stevenson in Longman's Mag. I. 77 Walter Scott is out and away the king of the romantics.
d30e4597 1865Reader 3 June 619/1 This enthusiasm for enthusiasm..was natural to the whole race of romantics of that day.
d30e4596 1827 Carlyle in C. E. Norton Two Notebks. of T. Carlyle (1898) 111 Grossi..has written a new Epic. . . Grossi is a Romantic.
d30e4589 A. 1846 A. Rodger Poems, Lo'e me little (1897) 12 Quat your romantics, your airs, and your antics, Tak' truth's honest track, and ye'll seldom gae wrang.
d30e4588 1679 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. vi. 324 Some Legendary Fabler, that has stufft a Farce with Romanticks.
d30e4578 1856 Stanley Sinai & Pal; (1858) 328 The grandest and most romantic character that Israel ever produced, Elijah the Tishbite.