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Dr. J. Scott, Works, II. 124. I speak especially of that imagination which is most free, such as we use in rom antick inventions. Dr. H. More, Immortal. of Soul, ii. 11. acterized by poetic or inspiring scenery; sug3. Wildly or impre ively picturesque; charge sting thoughts of romance: as, a romantic prospect; a romantic glen. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge Castle holds its state,... Mine own romantic town! IMG:content-2430.jpg:[graphic] There was nothing of cla ic idealism in his [the medieval church-builder's] work; it was modern and romantic in the sense that in it the matter predominated over the form. C. E. Norton, Church-building in Middle Ages, p. 29. Romantic school, a name a umed by a number of valis, Tieck, and others to designate a combination of young poets and critics in Germany - the Schlegels, No writers whose efforts were directed to the overthrow of the artificial rhetoric and unimaginative pedantry of the French school of poetry. The name is also given to a thirty years later, and engaged in a long struggle for susimilar school which arose in France between twenty and premacy with the older cla ic school ; Victor Hugo and Lamartine were among the leaders. From literature the name pa ed into music as the designation of a cla of mantic school of authors. See def. 4. = Syn. 1. Roman musicians having many of the characteristics of the rofeelings, romantic in reference to the imagination. Sen tic , Sentimental . Sentimental is used in reference to the is used in a sense unfavorable, but in all degrees: that would surround imprisoned criminals with luxuries. as, an amiably sentimental person; the sentimental pity "The sentimental person is one of wrong or exce ive sensibility, or who imports mere sentiment into matters worthy of more vigorous thought." (C. J. Smith , Syn. Disc., unfavorable, but in all degrees, implying that the use of p . 680.) Romantic , when applied to character, is generally the imagination is extravagant. A romantic person indulges his imagination in the creation and contemplation of scenes of ideal enterprise, adventure, and enjoyment. romantic ronde youthful vitality, and may be disciplined into imaginative strength; sentimentality is a sort of mental sickline or degeneration, and is not easily recovered from.