Romantics

Orange Flower (Neroli) Oil. "The rose we call the queen of flowers, the jasmin the fairest and prettiest princess, but the orange flower is the most fragile and dainty of out royal family of flowers. If the rose stirs our memories, the jasmin our hopes, the orange flower stirs sentiments—sentiments most romantic " (14). Commercial neroh oil [8016-38 J is obtained by steam distillation of the freshly picked blossoms of the bitter orange Citrus aurantium L. subspecies amara, which is cultivated in Mediterranean countries as well as in Haiti and several other tropical countries. More than 125 components have been identified in the oil the principal ones are shown in Table 4 and Figure 1. 

Pesticide use was not Carson s chosen topic. She preferred to author works that simply fostered a deeper appreciation of nature. A shy and soft-spoken woman, Carson wrote with an Albert Schweitzer-like reverence for life. All was sacred to her. Her style was lyrical, vivid, and romantic, falling mostly within the nature-writing tradition. She gave her creatures anthropomorphic characteristics, set them in dramatic situations, hoping, she said, to make animals in the woods or waters, where they live, as alive to others as they are to me. ... 

Asked if he himself is romantically happy, Mr. Wong answered instead that he was really busy professionally. Sad ... 

Tea is found in every shape and size, grown and processed everywhere across a wide belt throughout China. In the U.S., we are used to only a few types of tea however, the varieties of Camellia sinensis found in China are almost endless. Each of them is given a name that often reflects the romantic and almost metaphysical nature of tea in Chinese culture. Probably nowhere else in the world is tea worshipped as a mystical and ceremonial beverage as in Asian countries, and especially in China, where C. sinensis finds its roots. 

I think I was only curious to see what would happen, though I must have known what might. I d been at the university for a year, after all. And why with him, whom I ll have to think of as Nigel There s something about the remembered smell of the gas fire and the sofa—soot and old fish-and-chip papers—that tells me my reasons weren t romantic ones. 

Thorndike, Lynn. The De constitutione mundi of John Michael Albert of Carrara. Romantic Rev 17, no. 3 (Jul-Sep 1926) 193-216. 

Principe, Lawrence M. Virtuous romance and romantic virtuoso the shaping of Robert Boyle s literary style. JHist Ideas 56 (1995) 377-397. 

Roberts, Maureen B. Ethereal Chemicals alchemy and the Romantic imagination. Romanticism On the Net, no. 5 (Feb 1997). rhttp //www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1997/v/n5/005734ar.htmll. 

Duane, O.B. W.B. Yeats romantic visionary. Gramercy Books, 2000. 

Wilt, J. Transmutations from alchemy to history in Quentin Durward and Anne of Geierstein. Europ Romantic Rev 13, no. 3 (2002) 249-260. 

Pfefferkorn, K. Novalis a romantic s theory of language and poetry. New Haven (CT), London Yale Univ P, 1988. 

There is an interesting allegorical tale with definite alchemical undertones in the German romantic author Novalis novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen which has some parallels with Goethe s Fairy tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily. 

The structures seen in the ALH84001 meteorite could easily have formed from molten material solidifying rapidly or even by precipitation of minerals from saturated solutions. Neither explanation is as romantic as Martian nanobacteria. Similar sized features have been seen following electron microscopy analysis of basalt rock structures found in riverbeds, such as from the Columbia river (Figure 6.15). 

See Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (Norton ed.) 54 and preface to Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, quoted in Frederick Gregory, "Romantic Kantianism and the End of the Newtonian Dream in Chemistry," Archives Internationales d Histoire des Sciences 34 (1984) 108123, on 109. 

Gregory, Frederick. "Romantic Kantianism and the End of the Newtonian Dream in Chemistry." AIHS 34 (1984) 108123. 

Here we have a case of impoverished terminology. One might use the term love, but that would exclude the pleasure of friendship and of general companionship. It may be best to consider this emotion as comprising several subtypes, such as friendship, filial love, parental love, love for other kin, romantic love (see Jankowiak Fischer, 1992 on its universality), and desire for companionship not limited to other humans (cf. the extreme distress of prolonged social isolation). However, the similarities among these sub-types may outweigh the differences. All other dyadic social bonds may have evolved from the primordial mother-infant bond. 

Jankowiak, W. R., Fischer, E. F. (1992). A cross-cultural perspective on romantic love. Ethos, 31, 149-155. 

THE DARK SIDE OF LOVE ABOUT BREAKING UP ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS... 

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