[19] Perhaps the most romantic lines in English are found in one of Camillo’s speeches in The Winter’s Tale (IV, 4):
a wild dedication of yourselves
To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores.
This “wild dedication” is, it should be noted, looked upon by Camillo with disfavor.
[20] Pepys’s Diary, 13 June, 1666.
[21] Thomas Shadwell, Preface to the Sullen Lovers, 1668.
[22] Spectator, 142, by Steele.
[23] Pope, 2d Epistle, Of the Character of Women.
[24] Cf. Revue d’hist. litt., XVIII, 440. For the Early French history of the word, see also the article Romantique by A. François in Annales de la Soc. J.-J. Rousseau, V, 199-236.
[25] First edition, 1698; second edition, 1732.