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  • 1945New Statesman 23 June 408/3 The book opens with a tale of romantic friendship
    at Oxford in the years following the first great war.

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  • 1942 T. Bailey Pink Camellia vii. 50 The lovemaking was of the purely romantic kind,
    for Cecily would have no other.

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  • 1874 Green Short Hist. vii. Sect.6. 407 The romantic daring of Drake's voyage. . .roused
    a general enthusiasm throughout England.

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  • 1866 C. M. Yonge Dove in Eagle's Nest II. ii. 41 Good substantial wedded affection
    was not lacking, but romantic love was thought an unnecessary preliminary, and found
    a vent in extravagant adoration not always in reputable quarters.

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  • 1858 Lytton What will he do with It? (1859) III. vii. xiv. 135 (heading) Romantic
    Love pathologically regarded by Frank Vance and Alban Morley.

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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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