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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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  • 1666 Pepys Diary 13 June, There happened this extraordinary case-one of the most romantique
    that ever I heard of in my life, and could not have believed [etc.].

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  • 1977 J. A. Cuddon Dict. Lit. Terms 573 Romantic revival, a term loosely applied to
    a movement in European literature (and other arts) during the last quarter of the
    18th c. and the first twenty or thirty years of the 19th c.
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