modernantique

Updated: July 28, 2025

And I have had occasion to admire the skilful manner in which he illustrates this theory himself, by constructing out of the rude materials of a distant time a monument of genius that transports us at once into the midst of the Feudal Ages,-and this without the incongruity which usually attaches to a modernantique.

William Hickling Prescott - History of the Conquest of Peru