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  Romance as defined by Samuel Johnson in his A Dictionary of the English Language of 1756. The first edition being 1755, there is no reason to assume that it was different.  Romance is defined as a "military fable of the middle ages; a tale of wild adventures in war and love. Milton. Waller. Dryden."   It is also defined as "a lie; a fiction."  From the lemma romantick is omitted (because it is on the next column):  "3. Fanciful; full of wild scenery. Thomson."
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Romance as defined by Samuel Johnson in his A Dictionary of the English Language of 1756. The first edition being 1755, there is no reason to assume that it was different. Romance is defined as a "military fable of the middle ages; a tale of wild adventures in war and love. Milton. Waller. Dryden." It is also defined as "a lie; a fiction." From the lemma romantick is omitted (because it is on the next column): "3. Fanciful; full of wild scenery. Thomson."

"What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick [...]." --Goethe


"THE word romantic has been lately introduced in Germany to designate that kind of poetry which is derived from the songs of the Troubadours; that which owes its birth to the union of chivalry and Christianity."--On Germany (1813) by Madame de Staël


"Werther had brought exalted sentiments so much into fashion, that hardly any body dared to show that he was dry and cold of nature, even when he was condemned to such a nature in reality. From thence arose that forced sort of enthusiasm for the moon, for forests, for the country, and for solitude; from thence those nervous fits, that affectation in the very voice, those looks which wished to be seen; in a word, all that apparatus of [romantic] sensibility, which vigorous and sincere minds disdain."--On Germany (1813) by Madame de Staël

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818) by Caspar David Friedrich
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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818) by Caspar David Friedrich

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Romantic means concerned with, or conducive to, romance and love; Idealistic yet impractical or passionate and imaginative rather than structured.

Etymology

From romaunt +‎ -ic. As in the The Romaunt of the Rose.

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