Or is it that you were more realistic in your acting to-night than ever before?

Seventeenth century love poetry was idyllic and idealist; Donne's is passionate and realistic to the point of cynicism.

" Such remnants of the romantic tradition as the verses on "The Unfortunate Camilla's Complaint to the Moon, for the Absence of her dear Henricus Frankville" in "Love in Excess" were soon discarded, but the letters, though they encumbered the progress of the narrative, made it more realistic by giving an opportunity for the display of passion at first hand.

And this is as true when their intellectual attitude is realistic as when it is idealistic.

Oh, for the most realistic of reasons, among others.

The characters in Mrs. Haywood's early fiction move in an imaginary world, sometimes, it is true, marked with the names of real places, but no more truly realistic than the setting of "Arcadia" or "Parthenissa."