单词 | revival of learning |
释义 | > as lemmasrevival of learning (also letters, literature, etc.) c. revival of learning (also letters, literature, etc.): the Renaissance in its literary aspect. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary period revival of learning (also letters, literature, etc.)1694 Augustanism1883 1694 W. Wotton Refl. Anc. & Mod. Learning xxvi. 299 Natural Philosophy was the last Part of Knowledge which was cultivated with any particular Care, upon the Revival of Learning. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. Notes p. xv/2 This singular animal [sc. the giraffe] has not been seen in Europe since the revival of letters. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. Introd. 3 At the revival of learning every thing disappeared to make room for the works of antiquity. 1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 20 Till the revival of literature in Europe there was no attempt at philosophical discussions in any of the Sciences. 1835 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) I. vi. 402 The great revival of letters among the western nations at the close of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth, century. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 1 The names of the great decisive movements in the European advance, like the Revival of Learning, or the Reformation. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 933/1 In ancient times, and at the revival of letters, the dissection of the lower animals was substituted for that of the human body. 1950 H. Read Educ. for Peace iv. 55 A complete break-away from a pedagogic tradition which had its origins in the Revival of Learning. 1988 Oxf. Art Jrnl. 40 29 The beginnings of the Renaissance (in the sense of the revival of arts and letters),..were located around the eleventh century. 2002 Goethe Yearbk. 11 3 Goethe drew..upon literary and artistic traditions that, from the Revival of Learning on, continued to be vital into his own lifetime. < as lemmas |
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