44 Metaphors for romance

Romances were always a favourite kind of reading with him.

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 childhood is the dream with which age consoles itself for the disillusionments of life.

If romance be really a pleasure, it is difficult to understand the modern reader's consuming desire to get it over, and if it be not a pleasure, it is difficult to understand his desire to have it at all.

" We should remember that these romances are the most characteristic literary creations of the Middle Ages, that they embody the new spirit of chivalry, religious faith, and romantic love in a feudal age, that they had a story to tell, and that some of them have never lost their influence on human ideals.

Stevenson's romances are remarkable for artistic style, clearness of visual image, and boyish love of adventure.

Chaucer, it seems, drew continually, through Lydgate and Caxton, from Guido di Colonna, whose Latin romance of the Trojan war was in turn a compilation from Bares Phrygius, Ovid and Statius.

" A FOREIGN OFFICE ROMANCE There are many folk who knew Alphonse Lacour in his old age.

All our early English romances are either copies or translations of the French; and this is true not only of the matter of France and Rome, but of Celtic heroes like Arthur, and

* * OCTAVE FEUILLET Romance of a Poor Young Man Octave Feuillet, born at Saint , in France, on August 11, 1821, was the son of a Norman gentleman who regarded literature as an ignoble profession.

Of course the whole romance is a collection of many romantic stories: it has no epic unity.

The romance of "Alexandre le Grant," therefore, purports to relate the life and adventures of the King of Macedon; but as Lambert le Cort and his numerous predecessors and successors were rather inclined to draw on imagination, the result is a very extravagant tale.

Lewis' romance of "The Monk" is a great favorite in Germany.

As a work of art, as a poem, the romance of Corinne is an immortal monument."

To take the telephone alone, surely the romance of Pyramus and Thisbe, with their primitive hole in the wall, was a tame affair compared with the possibilities of this magic toy, by means of which you can talk with your love not merely through a wall but through the Rocky Mountains.

To him and to the others my early romance was always the most interesting thing about me.

The romance with which readers have always invested it is the outcome of a misconception no less complete than that which led the fair dames of London to make obeisance to the tawny Pocahontas as to a princess of imperial lineage.

The 'romance of Daphnis and Chloe is the last word of a world of sensuous enervation toying with the idea of vernal freshness and virginity.

This fine old romance of Longus is as sweet and beautiful a love-story as ever skipped in prose.

Burnet's Theory, a romance that passed for science in its day, was opposed in 1696 by Whiston in his 'New Theory of the Earth' (one all for Fire, the other all for Water), and the new Romance was Science even in the eyes of Locke.

Romance, in so far as it represents the love of the strange, is a product of the West.

A metrical romance or lesser epic is a narrative poem, shorter and less dignified than the epic.

New-York women are less exacting; a few of them, indeed, like a dash of the adventurous in their lover; but most of them are business-women, fighting their way out of vulgarity into style, and romance is an interruption.

Enemies (he had such about him who call themselves his friends; as if embittering a suffering heart was not murder), enemies made him believe that this romance was a revelation of his character.

The French romances of the lower class, such as "Cassandra," "Cleopatra," etc., were the favourite pastime of the ladies, and retained all the extravagancies of chivalrous sentiment, with a double portion of tedious form and metaphysical subtlety.

44 Metaphors for  romance