Of old a structure of possibilities intensely romantic, it was now dingy, pitiable, insignificant.

It must indeed be confessed that when all is said and done, essentially romantic as the Cathedral of Chichester is with its so various styles of architecture, lovely as certain parts of it are still, it must always have been a building rather interesting than beautiful, and it has suffered so much from vandalism and restoration that it cannot be accounted a monument of the first order.

The hills are often variegated with the cypress, &c., and near to the sea are beautifully romantic.

His bold strokes were made deliberately, after calculating the cost; but now and then one got a hint of something strangely romantic and in a sense extravagant.

Landor's reaction from Romanticism is all the more remarkable in view of his early efforts, such as Gebir, a wildly romantic poem, which rivals any work of Byron or Shelley in its extravagance.

A number of exceedingly romantic legends are centered around the Pueblo de Taos, which is about twenty miles from Embudo.

That a long-dead poet walking in the Spring was moved as I am by the unfolding leaf and the returning bird imparts an added significance to my own feelings; and that some wise and beautiful old book knew and said it all long ago, makes my life seem all the more mysteriously romantic for me to-day.

And," she added, as one confessing to an absurdly romantic ideal, "I was trying to balance it.

It is probably because ladies write comparatively so little, that you find them writing at fifty poetry and prose of the most awfully romantic and sentimental strain.

It would have been so much nicer, so deliciously romantic, if there had been an opportunity afforded me to show how ready, nay, eager, I was to sacrifice friends, home and country for his dear sake.

A firm of enterprising Agents offer bracing and profitable occupation (coupled with the use gratis, of two broken spades, an old manure-cart, and an axe without a handle) in a peculiarly romantic and unhealthy district in the backwoods of West-Torrida.

"Libbie, let that be a warning to youRuth Gladys Royal is terribly romantic, too!" Miss Anderson, smiling and unhurried, marshaled her charges into the large foyer and announced that they would be assigned to rooms before luncheon.

For that is precisely what the tales are; and excellently romantic and thrilling chapters too, for the most part dated in the decade following the great Anglo-French peace of a century ago.

" General Brodnax, in a letter rife with fatherly romantic tenderness and with splendid praise of Hilary as foremost in the glorious feat which had saved old "Roaring Betsy" but lost (or mislaid) him and his three comrades, also bade her wait.

He had not been so foolishly romantic as to have been unaware that in all probability she might have grown up to be something very different from that which his fancy had depicted.

" THEOCRITUS AND CALLIMACHUS Let us now return from Athens and Rome to Alexandria, to see whether we can find a purer and more genuinely romantic atmosphere in the works of her leading poets.

" "You are incorrigibly romantic, Antoinette," said her father, with just a touch of ill-humour.

Wells, as a matter of fact, is almost impossibly beautiful, and incredibly romantic.

Dear old LibbieI wonder if she is as incurably romantic as ever!" Betty's fingers had worked mechanically while she spoke, and now she had her parcel undone.

And in the end she had married a Devonshire squire, which on the face of it is no darkly romantic thing to do.

"I meant what a great contrast there is between Mrs. Bradford and Mrs. Latham," I explained, at once realizing that there was really no sense in the comparison outside of my own irrepressibly romantic imagination, even before father said: "And why, pray, should they not be different?

At first my heart was full of bitter curses, and my uncle had not at his heels a heartier hater than I. Then came the merely romantic thought, that this might be but a test she would put me to,that he might be innocent and ignorant of my misfortune.

" "You are dangerously romantic, Monsieur Jules," said mademoiselle.

These stories are undoubtedly romantic; but again I ask, are they stories of romantic love?

Somewhat of Spain, perhaps, might also be traced in an incident, promisingly romantic, but coming to a most lame and impotent conclusion, which occurred this afternoon to one of our party.