While not exactly a romantic thought, it was a practical one.
It's such a romantic thought: that there exist out there, like undiscovered desert islands, ideas we have never even conceived of.
This shift of concern from general to particular conceptions of truth was a key feature of Romantic thought, and Ruskin's first major achievement was thus to bring the assumptions of Romanticism to the practice of art criticism.
Novalis, pseudonym of Friedrich Leopold, Freiherr von (baron of) Hardenberg (born May 2, 1772, Oberwiederstedt, Prussian Saxony [Germany] died March 25 , 1801 Weissenfels, Saxony [Germany]) early German Romantic poet and theorist who greatly influenced later Romantic thought.
Novalis, pseudonym of Friedrich Leopold, Freiherr von (baron of) Hardenberg, (born May 2, 1772, Oberwiederstedt, Prussian Saxony [Germany] died March 25 , 1801 Weissenfels, Saxony [Germany]), early German Romantic poet and theorist who greatly influenced later Romantic thought.
The idealism and transcendentalism of Romantic thought were challenged by the growing prestige of empirical science and utilitarian moral philosophy, a process that encouraged more-objective modes in literature.
Ever since the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli thought he spied lines that he called "canali" on Mars in 1877, earthlings' romantic thoughts about our nearest cosmic neighbor have revolved around water and its possible consequence, Life as We Know It.
He made a new album with Grand Hallway, but found that romantic thoughts influenced, and then drove, his creative efforts.
"But here we were in a war zone, and there were no romantic thoughts; it was very professional".
It's Valentine's Day, which means that the Internet will soon be flooded with romantic thoughts — and, more importantly, romantic media.
Romantic thoughts may stray in that direction, or to someone who's out of the country or seems out of your class.
