31 Words to use with romances

(Harvard studies In romance languages, v.7)

The Cid in Spain, Orlando in Italy, and Arthur in England, are similar examples of national ideals put forth by poets and romance writers as embodiments of a certain half-mythic age of chivalry, when personal valor, prudence, generosity, and high feeling gave the warrior an admitted preeminence among his fellows.

(The Johns Hopkins studies in romance literatures and language, extra v.17) © 10Apr41; A152553.

(In Everybody's-romance magazine, Oct. 1929)

These are imaginative and delightful stories of ideal love and marvelous adventure, which profoundly affected romance writing for the next thousand years.

"It was a foolish romance-book, sir, as you seem to know.

But long centuries ago we added thousands of Romance words, words which came into English through the French or Norman-French, and brought with them the ideas of Latin civilization and of mediaeval Christianity.

He may be said to have invented the Venetian species of romance picture, where an episode in a novella forms the motive of the painting.

Romance map of the Hudson River Valley.

Though in no sense a soothing draught for the overstrained sensibilities of romance readers, "The Fatal Secret: or, Constancy in Distress" (1724) nevertheless represents a valuable part of Mrs. Haywood's contribution to the technique of the novel.

The motivea comparison between a man of moral grandeur and one of grandiose immoralitycame to Richter while he was engaged on "Hesperus," a fact that explains why certain characters from the earlier romance reappear in "Titan.

(Romance-history of America, 4) © 11Sep25, A861802.

CYMBELINE, a legendary British king, and the hero of Shakespeare's romance play of the name.

(3) Elizabethan literature is intensely romantic; the romance springs from the heart of youth, and believes all things, even the impossible.

" The church resounded with the Gloria and the Laudes: "Life and victory to the Emperor, to the Roman and the German army," and with the endless acclamations of the rude soldiers who hailed their King in German, Slav, and Romance tongues.

Mr. CONRAD is busy with a new romance treating of JONAH and the whale, in which, for the sake of verisimilitude, JONAH will himself recount his strange adventure to a few personal friends.

At twenty-four, with a heart untouched, with fresh susceptibilities, and a little romance withal, is it to be wondered that his fancy drew such pleasing pictures of his cousin?

Perhaps my construction might not please the grammarians of classic Bagdad, but the sentiment is there safe enough in the language of the mother romance world of the date: 'All hail, first-born of our Western desert fecundity!'

The saccharine romance-monger, Elise Polko, has a rather mawkish story which she connects with his name, though on what authority, I am ignorant.

Now and then, as in the case of Dante, as it was with the great romance-cycle of the Holy Graal, we have a sense of completeness.

But far greater is the tragedy when the illusive charm of romance departs, and love and marriage are reduced to the commonplace.

] FROM "ONEGIN" Sometimes he read aloud with Olga A latter day romance discreet, Whose author truly painted nature, With cunning plot, insight complete; Oft he passed over a few pages, Too bald or tasteless in their art And coloring, began on further, Not to disturb the maiden heart.

According to tradition, and an old 'romance muy doloroso,' which might have been heard sung within the last hundred years, the governor, the Cabildo, and the clergy went to witness an annual feast of the Indians at Arena, a sandy spot (as its name signifies) near the central mountain of Tamana.

In their oldest romancesfor instance, that of the "Children of Sara," and in those to which they have given the name of romances fronterizos, or romances of the frontierthey give the facts of the war between the Mussulmans and the Christians.

Romance hath lost her minstrel, No more his magic strain Shall throw a sweeter spell around, The legends of Almaine.

31 Words to use with  romances