It shows us with what ability he could dramatize a romantic tale; with what license as a realist imagine and portray an unmoral, when not immoral, semblance of contemporary life.
The three masterpieces of romantic drama, Beaumont controlled in composition, and revised.
It is a later production by Fletcher, Massinger, and probably one other; and is the only play of this tragic-idyllic-romantic type attempted by Fletcher after Beaumont had ceased writing.
Not all even of Shakespeare's romantic comedies come up to Philaster in literary or dramatic excellence; but only Shakespeare has written what surpasses it.
As in the two great romantic dramas which followed, and in Beaumont's subplot of The Coxcombe, the story is of the authors' own invention.
And some of them thrust their faces into the romantic plays and tragedies as well.
Scott was delighted to find, on his return, that this suggestion had been adopted, and for aught I know the romantic legend may still be visible.
Her romantic appellation was, in latter days, with equal justice, conferred on Miss Mary Lilias Scott, the last of the elder branch of the Harden family.
His romantic disposition, which led him highly to relish gaiety, approaching to license, was, at the same time, tinged with enthusiastic devotion.
The glen is romantic and delightful, with steep banks on each side, covered with copse, particularly with hawthorn.
Sir Brian Tunstall, called in theromantic language of the time, Tunstall the Undefiled, was one of the few Englishmen of rank slain at Flodden.
Its romantic and picturesque qualities it still retains, but its desolation is no more.
When once the toad has pledged his faith to a spouse, not only does he exhibit toward her a romantic fidelity, but he, moreover, protects her at the peril, and often even at the sacrifice of his life.
It stood in the midst of swampy meadows, bordered by broad plats of the green maguey, and this isolation, together with the huge old trees that shadowed and sang over it, gave the spot an air of romantic loneliness.
To obtain logs in such romantic locations was really as hazardous as it was laborious, varying sufficiently from the usual routine of labor to invest the occasion with no ordinary interest.
The poetry of which I have spoken shows itself even here, where they are separated from old romantic associations, and begin the new life in the New World by doing all its drudgery.
A coquette he could have interpreted; but a romantic character like hers, born for a grand passion, or no love at all, he could not.
The mostromantic story of heart-burial is that of Robert Bruce.
Both as novelist and art critic, Heinse had considerable influence on the romantic school.
Most of the poets of the Romantic movement in Denmark were very grave and serious; Heiberg added the element of humour, elegance and irony.
The flock included intelligent pupils, empty-headed imitators, and romanticnatures who turned philosophy into lyric measures.
He was educated at the university of Copenhagen, and his first publication, entitled The Theatre for Marionettes (1814), included two romantic dramas.
Painting and music are the specially romantic arts.
The prose writings of his French period mark, together with Borne's Briefe aus Paris, the beginning of a new era in German journalism and a healthy revolt against the unwieldy prose of the Romantic period.
No figure of that romantic period stands out in stronger relief than that of Frandina, who moves and speaks before us in her habit as she lived in spite of the long track of centuries.
Ever since he entered Italy he had been on the alert for romantic impressions, and his eager fancy instinctively lifted every commonplace incident that appeared to have poetic possibilities in it into the region of romance.
This metropolis of the fourth estate occupies a romantic site on the south side of the avenue and the north bank of the lake.
The artist is Hermann Kirn, a pupil of Steinhäuser, one of the first of the modern romanticschool of German sculptors.
The romantic reader will be disappointed with his meagre statements here, which hardly bring these two people more distinctly before us than are Solomon and the queen of Sheba.
As time rolled on, several of the older proprietors died off, and willed away, with the rest of their property, the Romantic Valley Brewery shares to their friends and relatives.
The rich had speculated with their superfluity, and they could bear to joke on the subject of the Romantic Valley, though they shook their heads when the supposed value of the shares was hinted at.
In the popular historical and romanticliterature of France, Queen Christina is a notorious character.
The Nordic is a picturesque and romantic figure, with many admirable qualities, but is seldom clever, skilful with his hands or patient in research.
Thus there is no reason for surprise that the compositions he turned out up to the end of his high school days were the customary platitudes of classical and romantic models.
There was nothing romantic or sensational about his passing, for he died of a complication of the illnesses of old age.
In the estimation of the present writer the tenderer romantic portions of the piece excel the comic pages associated with Zerbinetta and her merry crew.
The disguised girl falls in love with a suitor of her sister, Arabella, to whom one Mandryka, a romantic Balkan youth of great wealth, pays court.
Of course the romantic accessories of the first act have an unsatisfactory sequel in the last, as the poet here too feels obliged to take a roundabout road instead of the direct one.
Antigone, representing as it does a romantic individual subject in a classical form, is the masterpiece of tragic art.
Ingeborg: The lines are from the Romantic Ballads of 1826, p.
His name is also on the list of subscribers to the Romantic Ballads, Norwich, 1826, as J.
Stately is the Danube, rolling in its might through lands romantic with the wild exploits of Turk, Polak, and Magyar!
Curiously enough among the subscribers to the Romantic Ballads, Norwich, 1826, we find these names: (p.
Swayne Vonved: See this piece in Romantic Ballads, pp.
So Borrow gives the Irish and his version in Romantic Ballads, p.
If she were sad before, what would she be now, deprived of the society of the only being to whom she could unfold the spiritual mysteries of her romantic soul?
Eva saw a great deal of her former brother, and there subsisted between them a romantic friendship.
The tone of the century hardly suited her refined andromantic spirit.
The Romantic Story of Baroni THE Emir of the Lebanon and his English friend did not depart from the desert city until the morrow, Fakredeen being so wearied by his journey that he required repose.
Her girl friends in Los Angeles had filled her head with romantic ideas about cowboys, especially her father's cowboys.
The girl guest was something of the snob, and Mary V had taken the simplest, surest way of squelching her romantic interest.
But, in my opinion, much less is done with this romantic situation than might be effected if good taste were exercised in the buildings, and on the disposal of the ground.
As a boy, of course, the idea that we renewed an eternal friendship, faithful to one another through so many centuries, made a romantic appeal that was considerable.
A revolt in literary art, such as the Romantic movement in England, has no time to concern itself with the old forms and traditions.
The French Revolution and the corresponding romantic revival in England are instances of this.
A writer like Scott indicates a sudden repulsion in many minds against a classical tradition grown sterile, and a widespread desire to extract romantic emotions from a forgotten medieval life.
It is a much more mysterious and prodigious affair than life rearranged upon romantic lines.
Literature has this cyclic ebb and flow; but what is romantic in one age tends to become classical in the next, as the new departure becomes in its turn traditional.
This rural, romantic and descriptive poem of the seat of so great a character, it is hoped may please, with a copper-plate likeness of the General.
Country ode for the fourth of July; My mistresses; Address to Della Crusca; Choice of a wife; On a ruined house in a romantic country; The town eclogue.
A romantic story turns upon the adventures of Fulk FitzWarine and Hawyse, daughter of Joce de Dinan; and the intrigues of Arnold de Lisle with that 'very gentle damsel,' Marion of the Heath.
Of course vanity was its own cure, and he dropped the subject of Australia altogether; but he was very full of his romantic life, and this took him a day or two, and cost him some moments of bitterness.
This was a blow at the attitude of romantic devotion, and I had to defend it.
She was of an engaging innocence in this respect; so that typing authors' manuscripts appealed to her as a vocation that combined one of the highest forms of cerebral activity with I don't know what glamour of romantic adventure.
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