In the second place, the romantic is the opposite of the hackneyed.

" Quite romantic are all these things, no doubt; but I fail to see that they throw any light whatever on the problem whether Indians can love sentimentally.

ROMANTIC BUT NOT LOVING If a romantic love-poem were necessarily a poem of romantic love, the specimens of amorous hyperbole cited in the preceding pages would indicate that the ancients knew love as we know it.

The business of exploration is about as romantic as earth-work on Indian railways.