The downfall of Beaconfieldism is like the vanishing of some vast magnificent castle in an Italian romance.
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William Ewart Gladstone, of the Liberal victory of 1880.Benjamin Disraeli
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In the game of Dawn Card-Castles, fifty-two playing cards are stacked up into a castle in a draught-free space: the player can determine the dreams of the next night if he awakes before the castle collapses. Those players who wish to dream of Romance build their castle with the seven of hearts.
Peter Greenaway
Melville was a born romancer. One cannot account for the success of his early romances by saying that in the Great South Sea he had found and worked a new field for romance, since evidently it was not his experience in the South Sea that had led him to romance, but the irresistible attraction that romance had over him that led him to the South Sea. He was able not only to feel but to interpret that charm, as it never had been interpreted before, as it never has been interpreted since.
Herman Melville
Of vast circumference and gloom profound,
This solitary Tree! A living thing
Produced too slowly ever to decay;
Of form and aspect too magnificent
To be destroyed.William Wordsworth
America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,—a land of romance, adventure, and gold.
Francis Parkman
Outside of God's perspective, even romance loses its significance. Not in riches or in romance do we find fulfillment, but in God.
Don Miller
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