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  • Lectures were translated by Giovanni Gherardini, but the great outburst of pamphlets — a whole battle — did not break out till 1818, when the term romanti - cismo was used first by antiromantic pamphleteers,

    ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • It looks like Reese Witherspoon might have her leading men for the James L. Brooks 'untitled romanti

    Screenhead 2009

  • My first took place in the 1980s and then it was more of a romanti-goth thing.

    July 6th, 2006 the_vogue 2006

  • I felt liek I was really there we had a romanti dinner then took a walk on the beach we wacthed the sunset and we were so hapy for once I felt alive and we had our first kiss that felt liek it lasted forever

    godhatesu Diary Entry godhatesu 2003

  • She had seen Martina on TV in recent months, presenting some Channel Four kids-and-chaos affair, and had heard her romanti - cally linked to several B-list celebrities.

    Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997

  • Stendhal picked up the term in Milan: he read and paraphrased Visconti whom he also knew personally, and then gave in Racine et Shakespeare (1823) the famous facetious definitions of classicism and romanti - cism.

    CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Peckham introduced a new term “negative romanti - cism,” that is, despairing, nihilistic romanticism.

    ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Also the terms, “a romantic,” “a romanti - cist,” “romanticism,” are very late in English and occur first in reports or notes on Continental phenomena.

    ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Obviously there is a continuity with romanti - cism, and particularly German romanticism; also in

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas REN 1968

  • It is carried forward by Giambattista Vico, David Hume, Charles de Brosses, and Paul-Henri, baron d'Holbach among others; and then, is transmuted from religious enthusi - asm to creative imagination and affirmed by romanti - cism.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas BURTON FELDMAN 1968

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