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  • The absence of a strong ethic suited to our age, the rise of the machine, the decadence of Romanticism as it ended a long and fruitful existence… who knows?†   (source)
  • That was the age of romanticism in literature, music, art, and philosophy.†   (source)
  • A hundred years ago you would have made a banker or lawyer or professor and you could have worked out your romanticism by reading fanciful tales and dreaming about what you might have been if you hadn't had the misfortune to be born into a humdrum period.†   (source)
  • Romanticism helped strengthen the feeling of national identity.†   (source)
  • Romanticism was in the main an urban phenomenon.†   (source)
  • Romanticism represents not least a reaction to the Enlightenment's mechanistic universe.†   (source)
  • He died in 1804, when the cultural epoch we call Romanticism was in the ascendant.†   (source)
  • It has been said that Romanticism was Europe's last common approach to life.†   (source)
  • There were many similarities between the Renaissance and Romanticism.†   (source)
  • I'll call you for a session on Romanticism.†   (source)
  • It was said that Romanticism implied a renaissance of the old cosmic consciousness.†   (source)
  • "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hege/was a legitimate child of Romanticism," began Alberto.†   (source)
  • Romanticism the path of mystery leads inwards Hilde let the heavy ring binder slide into her lap.†   (source)
  • What united these two aspects of Romanticism was first and foremost the key word 'organism.'†   (source)
  • Yes, one of the features of Romanticism was this yearning for nature and nature's mysteries.†   (source)
  • There is therefore no sharp dividing line between National Romanticism and Universal Romanticism.†   (source)
  • We have only gotten as far as Romanticism.†   (source)
  • Was Romanticism one of those epochs?†   (source)
  • The philosophers of Romanticism viewed the 'world soul' as an 'ego' which in a more or less dreamlike state created everything in the world.†   (source)
  • Today we are going to talk about Romanticism, which could be described as Europe's last great cultural epoch.†   (source)
  • After a period as assistant professor in Jena he became a professor in Heidelberg, the center of German National Romanticism.†   (source)
  • The other is the so-called National Romanticism, which became popular a little later, especially in the town of Heidelberg.†   (source)
  • There is what we call Universal Romanticism, referring to the Romantics who were preoccupied with nature, world soul, and artistic genius.†   (source)
  • Because Romanticism involved new orientations in so many areas, it has been usual to distinguish between two forms of Romanticism.†   (source)
  • The Norwegian-born naturalist Henrik Steffens—whom Wergeland called 'Norway's departed laurel leaf because he had settled in Germany—went to Copenhagen in 1801 to lecture on German Romanticism.†   (source)
  • Did Romanticism last that long?†   (source)
  • They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish.†   (source)
  • It fired the Irish romanticism within me, as did Mr. Stone's accounts of the hurricane of '59 that crushed boats and docks like playthings, that uprooted oak trees as tall as towers, that incapacitated a town thirty miles from the island and made it a national disaster area.†   (source)
  • Eliza had suffered one or two losses in her investments, led astray by a strain of wild romanticism which destroyed for the moment her shrewd caution.†   (source)
  • His feeling for the South was not so much historic as it was of the core and desire of dark romanticism—that unlimited and inexplicable drunkenness, the magnetism of some men's blood that takes them into the heart of the heat, and beyond that, into the polar and emerald cold of the South as swiftly as it took the heart of that incomparable romanticist who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, beyond which there is nothing.†   (source)
  • "Is your aunt's romanticism always consistent with accuracy?"†   (source)
  • As for Lavinia, he hated to talk to her about the matter; she annoyed him with her mock romanticism.†   (source)
  • The question was about Olympus, whose part was taken by Jean Prouvaire, out of pure romanticism.†   (source)
  • The damnable romanticism of these pure hearts!†   (source)
  • I was fully convinced (the sense of reality, in spite of all my romanticism!†   (source)
  • But all that's romanticism in your eyes.'†   (source)
  • The nineteenth century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.†   (source)
  • European Romanticism was above all a movement of liberation: both anticlassical and antiacademic, directed against outmoded classicism, the old school of reason, whose defenders it scorned as powdered periwigs.†   (source)
  • "Why, yes, of course, if you want me to," she replied, coquettishly, seeking to intrigue him into further romanticisms in regard to her.†   (source)
  • I admire Victor Hugo—I appreciate his genius, his brilliancy, his romanticism; though he is not one of my literary passions.†   (source)
  • Freedom was in fact probably more an idea of Romanticism than of the Enlightenment, for as a concept it shared with Romanticism the same complex, never-to-be-disentangled interlocking of the human instinct to expand and the passionate, constricting thrust of the individual ego.†   (source)
  • Among other things, he spoke about Romanticism and the fascinating duality of this early nineteenth-century European movement, before which both reactionary and revolutionary ideas fell, that is, all those that were not synthesized to something higher still.†   (source)
  • If the reader be young, or if he has yet a sympathetic recollection of the romanticisms of his youth, he will relish the pleasure with which Ben-Hur, riding near the camel of the Egyptians, gave a last look at the head of the straggling column almost out of sight on the shimmering plain.†   (source)
  • Romanticism, which has helped to fill some dull blanks with love and knowledge, had not yet penetrated the times with its leaven and entered into everybody's food; it was fermenting still as a distinguishable vigorous enthusiasm in certain long-haired German artists at Rome, and the youth of other nations who worked or idled near them were sometimes caught in the spreading movement.†   (source)
  • This last phrase obviously displeased Bazarov; there was a flavour of philosophy, that is to say, romanticism about it, for Bazarov called philosophy, too, romanticism, but he did not think it necessary to correct his young disciple.†   (source)
  • Thus Napoleon represented glory and Franklin liberty; Irma was perhaps a concession to romanticism, but Athalie was a homage to the greatest masterpiece of the French stage.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XLV TROY'S ROMANTICISM When Troy's wife had left the house at the previous midnight his first act was to cover the dead from sight.†   (source)
  • If Gringoire had lived in our day, what a fine middle course he would hold between classicism and romanticism!†   (source)
  • The comic, the serious, the unexpected, are mingled in a variety of characters, and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue which proceeds misteriously, and ends, after striking altarations, in the midst of many beautiful strokes of brilliant scenes.†   (source)
  • Bazarov was on the point of uttering his favourite word, 'romanticism,' but he checked himself, and said, 'rubbish.†   (source)
  • With a bow to the judges and another, no less formal, to myself, Mr. Gowan drew himself still straighter than his normal upright posture, braced both thumbs in the waist of his breeks, and prepared with all the romanticism of his aged, gallant heart to do battle, fighting with the law's chosen weapon of excruciating boredom.†   (source)
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