romancist

There is many a poet who never wrote a line, many a romancist who never contributed to a magazine.

The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

_Random Memories_ see familiar places and people touched by the light of genius, and made as wonderful to your own commonplace understanding as to the intense and high-souled boy who wandered about among them, hearing and seeing the everyday things of life as only the romancist and the poet can hear and see them.

Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black

Now this was all excellent well as far as it went; but still there was something wanted of more reality than the improvisations of a romancist.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 Various

Greek romancist of the second century, who, in common with his cotemporary the great rationalist Lucian, deserves the praise of having exposed (with more wit perhaps than success) some of the most absurd prejudices of the day, his readers are entertained with stories that might pretty nearly represent the sentiments of the seventeenth century.

The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams

"As an historical romancist, Mr. Warburton takes a first wrangler's rank."

Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850 Various

In his second character of antiquarian romancist, he awoke the elder Dumas, and such a host of imitators, big and little, as no writer ever had at his heels before or since.

My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray

Had we the plague-pen of the romancist of Rookwood, we would revel in the detail of this domesticated pestilence -- we would picture the little sufferer in the hour of its agony -- and be as minute as Mr. Hume in our calculations of its feverish pulsations; but our quill was moulted by the dove, not plucked from the wing of the carrion raven.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 Various

God-fearing soul of the philanthropist has travailed here for the good of her kind, not the mere 'sensation' romancist writer for the entertainment of an idle hour. '

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

When the thrilled listener has refreshed the tale-teller from his whisky flask, the romancist takes up the thread of his narrative once more, and tells how the Lancers thundered over the shivering veldts in pursuit of flying hordes of foemen, and for awhile, like some graveyard ghoul, he revels in the moans of the dying and the blood of the slain.

Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales

The influence of Raff is of the utmost importance in MacDowell's music, and I have been told that the great romancist made a _protégé_ of him, and would lock him in a room for hours till he had worked out the most appalling musical problems.

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914