resuscitations

Updated: May 5, 2025

Luckily, assent is not belief; and mankind's feelings are for the most part superior to their opinions; otherwise the world would have been in a bad way indeed, and nature not been vindicated of her children. But let us watch and be on our guard against all resuscitations of superstition.

Leigh Hunt - Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1

There is royal box on the ground-tier; and the King in it, King, with Princess Amelia for the prizes: opposite to this is entrance for the Chevaliers, four separate entrances, I think. Who come, lo, at last! with breathings and big swells of music, as Resuscitations from the buried Ages. "They are in four 'Quadrilles, so termed: Romans, Persians, Carthaginians, Greeks.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16

There is perhaps no modern book of verse in which a certain melancholy phase of ancient thought is better reproduced than in Ionica, and this gives its slight verses their lasting charm. We have had numerous resuscitations of ancient manners and landscape in modern poetry since the days of Keats and André Chenier.

Edmund Gosse - Gossip in a Library

It was left to the enlightened antiquarian skill of our own times, so fruitful in similar discoveries and resuscitations, to find out among the fastnesses of the wilderness around Rome its true position.

Hugh Macmillan - Roman Mosaics: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood