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1  I think it is quite romantic of him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  It is one of the great romantic tragedies of the age.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  "It is a most romantic explanation," laughed the hostess.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  His romantic, olive-coloured face and worn expression interested him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  I wish I could believe that he had come to such a really romantic end as you suggest, but I can't.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  It should have the dignity of a ceremony, as well as its unreality, and should combine the insincere character of a romantic play with the wit and beauty that make such plays delightful to us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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