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Example sentences for "mediaevalism"

Lexicographically close words:
medesima; medesimo; media; mediae; mediaeval; mediaevals; medial; medially; median; mediant
  1. Presently he tells us his feelings about the life around him, for the social critics of mediaevalism felt the inequalities of fortune and happiness quite as strongly as do the social critics of to-day.

  2. Less than a hundred and fifty years later, the great poem of mediaevalism forgot to give Abelard a place even among the penitents of purgatory, and to-day except by special students he is remembered only as Heloise's unworthy lover.

  3. After a dozen bars the fluting notes of a celestial chorus begin gliding in, and then we have an example of that naif mediaevalism at which the second part of "Gerontius" here and there hints.

  4. Mediaevalism was a forgetting, the Renaissance a recovery.

  5. But he demolished the political structure of mediaevalism in his kingdom; and when his cruel reign was ended the Middle Ages had passed away, and modern life had begun in France.

  6. He demolished the political structure of mediaevalism in his kingdom, and when his terrible reign was ended, in 1483, the Middle Ages had passed away and modern life had begun in France.

  7. Greek mythology was the essential poetry of nature, and mediaevalism the essential poetry of manhood.

  8. Nothing, as appears to me, was more accurate and in keeping with Tennysonian genius than this choosing Greek antiquity and mediaevalism as the theater for his poetry; for he was the chief romance poet since Edmund Spenser.

  9. There is the usual mixture of Christianity and Mediaevalism in the sculptures on the top of the tomb.

  10. One suspects that he depended much on those models, for where he had no antique to copy from, he degenerated into the mediaevalism of his fraternity.

  11. Greek seemed to savour of heresy, just as now to some it seems a relic of mediaevalism unworthy of the study of a scientific age.

  12. The cause of intellectual freedom was presented to him in its worst aspect, and the command to cast away the childish things of mediaevalism came in a revolting form from the lips of a coarse and brutal tyrant.

  13. The spirit of mediaevalism summoned up by Sir Walter, was typified in Oxford architecture by Sir Gilbert Scott and Pugin.

  14. The revival of mediaevalism in Religion was echoed by a revival of mediaevalism in Art.

  15. These two cases are extreme examples of the mediaevalism that to a considerable degree prevails in New York City, probably in Chicago and Boston, and wherever there is an excessive south Italian population.

  16. But mere mediaevalism would be comparatively unimportant did it not supply the principal element favorable to the growth of the Mala Vita, apprehended with so much dread by many of the citizens of the United States.

  17. As it stands it is invaluable as a mine of facts bearing upon the change from mediaevalism to modernity and upon Europe's conquest of the world; but an immense number of these facts are irrelevant to his general theme and purpose.

  18. Such mediaevalism was the reverse of mere mysticism, in the sense of mere mystery; it might more truly be described as sensationalism.

  19. It is the only story in the collection which has dominated his dreamy mediaevalism and struck fire from his pen.

  20. It may be that I do them an injustice, and that they would offer as excuse the incontestible fact that Mediaevalism contributed nothing to "modern civilization," either in religion or philosophy, that it was willing to accept.

  21. As Mediaevalism gave place to the Renaissance this Christian idea was abandoned, and increasingly the obligation was severed from the right, which so became that odious thing, privilege.

  22. Under mediaevalism chattel slavery had disappeared, and the lot of the peasant was a happier one than he had known before.

  23. But there are a few noteworthy experiments in mediaevalism included among these early lyrics.

  24. The attitude was that of a mediaevalism inspired by much later learning, but still more by that intermediate or decadent Greek philosophy which had so much influence on the Middle Ages themselves.

  25. To such a degree had mediaevalism become the fashion, that nearly every Georgian and Victorian poet of any pretensions tried his hand at it.

  26. Ruskin, too, cautioned his young friends that "if their sympathies with the early artists lead them into mediaevalism or Romanism, they will of course come to nothing.

  27. That is to say, their mediaevalism was more concentrated, more exclusive, and more final.

  28. Patriotism and mediaevalism became for a long time the watchwords and the dominating fashion of the day.

  29. Of quite another fashion of mediaevalism is Mr. Hewlett's story--sheer romance.

  30. Yes, doubtless he would be condemned, for mediaevalism dies hard in Spain.

  31. There mediaevalism still strove with the spirit of modern progress; and so it suited well as an environment for the dilation of his shrunken soul-arteries.

  32. He approached Dantesque mediaevalism through Rossetti and, later on, at the original source.

  33. Mediaevalism for the middle classes always ensures an appreciative audience.

  34. This is the measure of our rise, but the Negro will not approach freedom until this hateful badge of slavery and mediaevalism has been reduced to less than 10 per cent.

  35. In our frantic effort to preserve the last vestiges of slavery and mediaevalism we not only set out faces against such improvements, but we seek to use education and the power of the state to train the servants who do not naturally appear.

  36. It is a mistake to suppose that the passion for mediaevalism began with either Coleridge or Scott.

  37. The quick and vivid intellect of Italy, which had been torpid in the decadence of mediaevalism and its mysticism and piety, seized with avidity the revelation of the classical world which the scholars and their manuscripts brought.

  38. It is a paradox worth noting for its strangeness that the first revival of mediaevalism in modern English literature was in the Renaissance itself.

  39. The ignorance of mediaevalism was in the habit of crediting Vergil with the construction of the Roman aqueducts and temples whose ruins are scattered over Europe.

  40. Mediaevalism added a deeper horror to this superstitious and ghoulish conception by the thoughts of spiritual responsibility and of league with God's enemies.

  41. Moreover, a skilled eye will doubtless detect traces of mediaevalism in many a featureless edifice that might seem at first the uncomely product of the soulless eighteenth century.

  42. Even the little church, in this case, has some touches of mediaevalism (thirteenth-century lancets) that redeem it from the general charge of Manx ecclesiological dulness.

  43. Show the liberalizing influence of the rise of scientific investigation and economic studies, for a nation still oppressed by mediaevalism and bad government.

  44. It was wonderful largely in that the forces struggling against mediaevalism to evolve the modern spirit here first find clear expression.

  45. By its close great changes were under way which were destined ultimately to shake off the incubus of mediaevalism and to transform Europe.

  46. The eighteenth century, in human thinking and progress, marks for most western nations the end of mediaevalism and the ushering-in of modern forms of intellectual liberty.

  47. The eighteenth century marks, in these directions, a sharp turning-point in human thinking, and the end of mediaevalism and the ushering in of modern forms of intellectual liberty.

  48. The old order of privilege came to an end, mediaevalism was swept away, and the serf was evolved into the free farmer and citizen.


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