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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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  • 1885 Fillmore Pianof. Music 80 In romantic music content is first and form subordinate.

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  • 1846 Wright Ess. Mid. Ages II. 38 Nothing can be more erroneous than the attempt to
    trace the origin of romantic literature to one particular source.

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  • 1829 Scott Wav. Gen. Pref., It was a step in my advance towards romantic composition.
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