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  • 1690 T. Burnet Theory Earth II. 171 We must not imagine that the prophets..feigned
    an idea of a romantick state, that never was nor ever will be.

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  • 1660 Tatham Charac. Rump Dram. Wks. (1878) 290 Upon the onely security of Mr. Harrington's
    romantick Commonwealth.

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  • 1824 Dibdin Libr. Comp. 672 The notion of an early-printed edition of the Canterbury
    Tales, by Wynkyn de Worde, is purely romantic.

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  • 1728 Morgan Algiers I. 62 Nicephorus relates that..S. Peter preached the Gospel in
    Mauritania: But this is looked upon to be intirely romantick.

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  • 1673Vain Insolency Rome 36, I marvel (though you read this, and much more as Romantick
    in the Popes Letters) that you can credit all this done by a person, about an hundred
    years since.

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  • 1667 Pepys Diary 10 Mar., These things are almost romantique, and yet true.

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  • 1981 S. Radley Chief Inspector's Daughter i. 15, I get depressed because I write romantic
    fiction instead of straight novels.

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  • 1977B. Pym Quartet in Autumn i. 3 Unable to find what she needed in `romantic' novels,
    Letty had turned to biographies of which there was no dearth.

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  • 1960 R. Rees For Love or Money ii. 30 The doctrine of D. H. Lawrence's Fantasia of
    the Unconscious: that sexual passion, unrelated to the religiousimpulse. . .leads
    to sterility and death-as in Anna Karenina, in Carmen, and in the greater part of
    European `romantic' literature.

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  • 1887Grove's Dict. Music IV. 414 There were in romantic opera four principal elements-the
    imaginative, the national, the comic, and the realistic.
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