Another voice was kind enough to explain for our encouragement that the traveller found in a place exactly what he brought there, and that romance was a personal gift, all in the personal point of view.
The romance of Rome was far away beyond that horizon on which he turned his wistful look; here was its hard work, its daily prose.
His supremacy in the domain of the short story and in the wider range of the romance is recognized both at home and abroad.
A romance dealing with an interesting phase of Scottish and English history, the Jacobite Insurrection of 1715, which will appeal strongly to the great number of admirers of historical fiction.
The deception and the confession, with all they had elicited from her, seemed parts of a dream, of some fancy he had had, some romance he had read.
A powerful romance of love, intrigue, and adventure in the time of Louis XV.
This famous romance has been out of print for some time, and a new translation is sure to appeal to its many admirers, who have never yet had any edition worthy of the story.
Yes, because it opened on her world of romance a magic window, letting in a wondrous light, waking that world to throbbing life, clothing it with indescribable charm, she knew the name of the key that had unlocked her own heart.
But they were hardly of a type willing to rough it after the first glamor of romance and novelty had faded, or able by hard labor to transform the wilderness into richly yielding fields and gardens.
The noble Spanish adventurers of Castilian blood, who had accompanied the early explorers and in a spirit of romance followed in their wake, were the first to obtain grants of land.
A story which reads like a romance is told of Tacon's institution of the fish market.
It was the obvious romance for the use of royalists but it arrested my attention.
The women who wept over her romance read in it the lesson of duty, not of whimpering introspection.
For, curiously enough, while the first half of the romance is a scene of disorderly passion, the second is the glorification of the family.
Let us turn to the romance which touched women in this way, and helped to give a new spirit to an epoch.
The romance treated one set of emotions in human nature particularly, though it also touches the whole emotional sphere indirectly.
All this was only putting Montesquieu into heroics, it is true, but a great many people read the romance who were not likely to read the graver book.
Rousseau generally spoke of his romance in phrases of depreciation, as the monument of a passing weakness.
As he sat gnawed by pain, with surgical instruments on his table, and sombre thoughts of suicide in his head, the ray of a little episode of romance shone in incongruously upon the scene.
The whole world was before him, and all the old conceptions of romance were instantly revived by the supposed nearness of their realisation.
Even in exact reproduction of another age, it cannot compare with Esmond, and how immeasurably as romanceis it beneath the fire and movement of a dozen historical romances that one could name!
After forty years this romance has been cast into a drama and placed upon the London stage, and it is frequently the subject of some vigorous pictures.
Very few writers of romance have ever been masters of a style so effective, so nervous, so capable of rising into floods of melody and pathos.
When we ask for a romance fully developed and more than a graceful vignette, Adam Bede must be regarded as the principal, and with the wider public it is always the typical, work of George Eliot.
These books then present us with the unique example of an ambitious statesman resorting to romance as his means of reorganising a political party.
It would be very difficult to mention anything like a romance in any age or country which had ever effected a direct political result or created a new party.
The only thing, indeed, which Silas Marner wants to make it a really great romance is more ease, more rapidity, more "go.
Modern romance has no purer, more pathetic, or simpler page than the tale of the death of poor Samuel Titmarsh's first child.
His own delightful and popular History of England is a compound of historical romance and biographical memoir.
A touch of romance clings to the grim legend like a tender-petalled flower to a rock.
Nay--on this very estate, amid the smoke of the factory-chimneys romance still holds her own.
The superfluous is striven for--the richness and the romance of things: and everyday-life is the more acceptable for it.
And yet, I know that the fancies are every whit as real and living as the facts, that the poetry and the romance are as faithful representations of things as they are, as the driest prose could be.
Take the beautiful capital of the blue-grass section of our state, and we find an interesting romance concerning its origin.
The earliest romance was that of Samuel Henderson and Betsey Calloway, at Boonesborough, in 1776.
Louis Lambert's advent was the subject of a romance worthy of the Arabian Nights.
The story-tellers of the province which was the birth-place of romance in France built chambers of gold and precious stones in the Fleming's dwelling, never failing to ascribe his immense riches to unholy compacts.
There is this strange feature in the mind of man: the most devoted, even in the act of devoting himself, always builds up a romance of hope even in the most perilous crisis.
The repulsive appearance of the house where the heroine of his romance had been swallowed up made him feel sick.
Like some learned men who give themselves infinite pains to complicate the clear and simple laws of nature, she had already invented a chaotic romance to account for the meeting of these three persons under her humble roof.
History andromance have consecrated the brown camlet overcoat, and trunks of the same material worn by Louis XI.
You seem to be bent on destroying all the romance of convents, Genevieve!
The romance of Sophia Kendal's early life had ended when she wounded her fingers in wreathing Genevieve's hair.
Gilbert looked pale and wretched, and Sophy hoped it was with compunction at having banished Genevieve at such a moment, but not a word was said--and that page of early romance was turned!
The Bayford mind was diverted from the romance of Genevieve, by the enormous fortune of the Vicar's nephew, whose capital was in their mouths and imaginations swelled into his yearly income.
Her next romancemight be on behalf of her beautiful little sister.
Lucy was so much amused, that she could not help reporting it at home, where Gilbert forgot his sorrows, in building up a mischievous romance in honour of the hole in the 'sweet and lovely wall.
It had acquired a new flavour; the flavour of adventure and romance which comes from a fuller understanding and a more personal identification; from, in fact, knowing more about it at first-hand.
Stilgebauer has written a romancewhich depicts in all its horror the havoc wrought by war upon human relationships and values outside the actual sphere of the battle-field.
Illustration] A MINE, A MINER, AND A CAT The mining camps of California in the days of '49 are full of romance and history and any man who has once tasted their free independent adventure can never more escape the influence.
I don't say being good romance is enough to commend it; but I do think not being good romance is enough to condemn it!
She often complains that I've got no more romance in my nature than my dear father had.
He therefore deprives her of a glamour, the loss of which he deplores, for he feels a lack not only of romance and beauty, but of something higher which is mystically given as the result of the complete union.
Modesty and Romance A person can therefore no more promise to love or not to love than he can promise to live long.
There was always a strong vein of idealism and romanceamong Hohenzollerns, the vein of a Lohengrin, a Tancred, or some mediæval knight.
And as if the lusts and crimes of the Baroness did not furnish enough sensational incidents, the tender romance of Beauclair and Montamour is superadded.
The sole exception is a little romance of Moorish chivalry in the eighth century.
Instead her tale is one of generous love and melting pathos more characteristic of the romance than of the novella or its successors.
Both romance and realism were woven into the intricate web of the Richardsonian novel, and the contribution of Mrs. Haywood deserves to be remembered if only because she supplied the one element missing in Defoe's masterpieces.
To reveal character in action was beyond the limit of Eliza Haywood's technique; and once the story is well under way, Althea becomes as colorless as only a heroine of romance can be.
The element of romance in Aurelia's marriage existed chiefly in the fact that Mr. L.
Many years after the romance had died, when Madame Necker was a happy matron, Gibbon, still a bachelor, decided to make Switzerland his permanent home.
In war they have a magnificent record: in science and in philosophy a record above the average: in poetry and romance they have little to show.
In La Nouvelle Heloise, a romance the scenery of which is laid at Vevey and Montreux, Rousseau argued for a return to more natural methods of living.
That romance gave the stimulus to the romantic works of Goethe and Schiller.
Crockett has made the chief figure in his brilliant romance of the Cevennes, Flower-o'-the-Corn.
A stern simplicity, heightened by the romance of the surroundings, spoke directly to the heart.
What passes for it is but a wan survival of the age of romance and chivalry.
If you could speak what couldn't you tell of romance and comedy and tragedy.
But he had been such a wonderful father--and--to be honest with herself, the romance and tradition and social standing of the Courtlandt name made an alluring appeal to her.
The surroundings stirred Julie like the confused beauty of Eastern music, and brought up dim, poetic suggestions of Queens of Sheba and Scheherezades and the unending dynasties of kings--of the poetry and the romance of old, unchanging things.
Beautiful and seductive as an houri, she was surrounded in both his mind and Barry's with theromance and tragedy of an unappeased Kundry soul.
He was a devotee of romance, but it was romance under the control of the comic spirit.
Yet perhaps enough has been said to induce every student of the wider history of man not to miss a golden opportunity of learning that anthropology and romance are sisters.
The author's expectation to get at least L60 for this romance from Robinson, the publisher of Zastrozzi, was not realised, as the terms arranged with Stockdale were that the book should be published at the author's expense.
But, except for that sappy core of romance which twice betrayed itself in act and once in word, Tom Coutts was a dry stick.
Miss Mirrlees has written, not a wholly satisfactory or very agreeable, but a very strange book, one far removed from the historical romance of commerce.
The publisher mournfully recorded the fact some years later that the romance did not sell, and that he was never paid for the printer's bill.
No sirens of romance can seduce him, no shock of opposition unseat him in his career.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "romance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
