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

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 1961 C. Clutton in A. Baines Mus. Instruments ii. 66 The [organ] works of Liszt and
    Franck,..and of such late romantics as Reger, Jongen, and Elgar, rely upon a very
    large instrument.

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  • 1966 H. G. Schenk Mind of European Romantics i. 6 Rationalism was attacked by the
    Romantics not on the grounds that the intellectual results yielded by it were false,
    but rather on the grounds that they were inadequate.

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  • 1977Times 18 Oct. 24/9 White tuxedos are occasionally supplied to shipboard romantics.
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