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Romances Quotes by Thomas Bulfinch
- It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
- The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.
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- As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. — Walt Whitman
- Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages. — Lord Byron
- Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment. — Samuel Richardson
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- To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. — Henry Fielding
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- It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear. — Thomas Bulfinch
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