romaunt

The romaunt, which is half Arabian in its origin, was at first a simple heroic tale; afterwards it became a very artificial species, adapted to various uses, but in which the picturesque ingredient always predominated even to the most brilliant luxuriance of colouring.

Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806

He called his poem a "romaunt," and his valet, poor Fletcher, a "stanch yeomán," and peppered his stanzas thinly with _sooths_ and _wights_ and_ whiloms_, but he gave over this affectation in the later cantos and made no further excursions into the Middle Ages.

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

At length his natural buoyancy of temper returned, much excited by the title of an old romaunt

Quentin Durward 2008

Fair dames and damsels, may your loves be as happy as those of the heroine of this romaunt.

Burlesques 2006

Fair dames and damsels, may your loves be as happy as those of the heroine of this romaunt.

A Legend of the Rhine 2006

On coin and jewel, in prayer and song they bore the Rose-Venus to every land in a living, ever-thrilling romaunt -- far goldener, more thrilling with poetry than was in later times the dull lay of De Loris and Clopinel: for wherever man found joy and beauty in life, feast, and song, she -- the

The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Was it to have been a second romaunt of 'King Cophetua and the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

And, sure enough, there was Kennedy, with rueful face and a maudlin romaunt about a moonlit meeting with a swarm of painted Sioux, over which the stable guard were making merry and stirring the trooper's soul to wrath ungovernable.

A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier Charles King 1888

This was a romaunt in four cantos upon the already familiar episode of Francesca, that "lily in the mouth of Tartarus."

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

Verily this is no common mind; else, crazed or sane, it could not weave so straight and gaudy a tale as this out of the airy nothings wherewith it hath wrought this curious romaunt.

The Prince and the Pauper; a tale for young people of all ages 1882