...evening in discoursing upon whatever agreeable subjects were occasionally started; and although wr are apt to ridicule the sublime Platonic notions they had, or personated, in love and friendship, 1 conceive their refinements were grounded upon reason, and that a ',"•'/, grain of romance is no...

...English writer to whom one would have looked for such an expression, who said:— "A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature:" and as with character so equally with architecture. A smug successful grocer might not find himself...

...front, but that an artist would very much so, and Swift was invoked to the effect that "a grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature." Romanticism was perhaps the most important and effective of the recruiting agencies of the Gothic revival,...

...own domestic architecture. It has that "little grain of the romance," which, according to Dean Swift, "is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature," and, by consequence, of domestic architecture. One would like to see a whole block front of little,...

...by the poets of that age, had assemblies at their houses, where persons of the best uuderstauding, and of both sexes, met to pass the evenings in discoursing upon whateveragreeable subjects were occasionally started; and although we are apt to ridicule the sublime...