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  • In art, as John Dennis wrote in 1704, “the work of every reasonable creature must derive its beauty from regularity, for Reason is rule and order” (Lovejoy, “The Chinese Origin of a Ro - manticism,” Essays ..., p. 99).

    NATURE GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • When the world of ideas and images, created at the moment of the flowering of romanticism, began to be popularized for the use of the large bourgeois masses, the content — ideological and iconographical — of ro - manticism lost its original authenticity and left be - hind not a new system of original images, but a dispo -

    ICONOGRAPHY JAN BIA��OSTOCKI 1968

  • Thomas Carlyle used it in 1831 for the first time, complacently and prematurely reflecting that “we are troubled with no controversies on Ro - manticism and Classicism,” in his “Essay on Schiller”

    CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • History; Realism in Literature; Ro - manticism in Literature; Symbol and Symbolism in

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas 1925

  • a new conception of the revelation of the word of God, and it ousted the earlier forms of manticism.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MOSHE GREENBERG 1968

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