We believe that Butler was one of the first to share in the Renascence of Wonder, which was the renascence of religion.
And further on he says that his own great picture symbolical of this renascence was suggested by Philip Aylwin's vignette.
The painter Wilderspin says to Henry Aylwin, 'The one great event of my life has been the reading of The Veiled Queen, your father's hook of inspired wisdom upon the modern Renascence of Wonder in the mind of man.
Robertson Nicoll has directed attention to the phrase, and he has taken it as a text of a remarkable discourse upon the 'Renascence of Wonder in Religion.
When I began "Faith and Love" I worked for weeks and months and years, having but one thought, how to give artistic rendering to the great idea of the Renascence of Wonder in Art symbolised in the vignette in your father's third edition.
A survey of the history of philosophies of the origin of the cosmos from the time of the renascence of inquiry, shows that the great Immanuel Kant has not had his due.
He has excellently pointed out how in the sixteenth century there was a double renascence,--a Hellenic renascence and a Hebrew renascence--and how both have been great powers ever since.
They were powerfully upheld by the intellectual life of their nation; they applied freely in literature the then modern ideas,--the ideas of the Renascence and the Reformation.
The style and taste of Egyptian sculpture underwent a change at each renascence of art.
An artistic renascence coincided with this restoration of political well being, and the princes of the twenty-sixth dynasty set themselves to restore the monuments which had perished during the intestine troubles and foreign inroads.
After the first renascence their imaginations played more freely.
This curious mannerism began to establish itself during the first renascence of Egyptian art under the twelfth dynasty.
Yet one more cause of the monotony of type which distinguished Egyptian art after its first renascence remains to be noticed.
It was characteristic of the man that among all the gay, profligate scholars of the Italian Renascence he chose as the object of his admiration the disciple of Savonarola, Pico di Mirandola.
Intellectually the figure of Humphrey is one of extreme interest, for he is the first Englishman in whom we can trace the faint influence of that revival of knowledge which was to bring about the coming renascence of the western world.
But the temper of the Renascence was even more antagonistic to the temper of Luther than that of Rome itself.
At the time of the Renascence Rome became pagan once more; the old imperial blood frothed up and swept Christianity away with the greatest onslaught ever directed against it.
Of modern construction andRenascence style, it overlooked the immensity of the Roman Campagna.
The museum possesses also, in a mixed style, belonging at once to art and science, clocks and watches of the Renascence and of the seventeenth century.
To misunderstand this moral bearing of the renascence of the Hebrew language is to fail to know the very life of the better part of Judaism and the Jew.
The surprising return of the younger generation, who had wholly broken with Judaism, this first step toward the actual realization of the Zionist dream, has had most important consequences for the renascence of Hebrew literature.
He was a master and a prophet, a gracious and brilliant exponent of the Renascence of Hebrew literature, which had been inaugurated by one of his ancestors, another Luzzatto.
The influence of Mr. Watts-Dunton's teachings is seen in the fact that the idea of the Renascence of Wonder has become expanded by theological writers and divines in order to include within its scope subjects connected with religion.
By this time, those in whom the movement of the Renascence was incarnate became aware what spirit they were of; and they attacked Supernaturalism in its Biblical stronghold, defended by Protestants and Romanists with equal zeal.
Again, just as in the Oxford movement we had the (appropriately regional) renascence of the idealism of the Cavaliers, so in Edinburgh we have naturally the simultaneous renascence of the Puritan ideal, e.
In the interest, then, of the incipient renascence of civic progress, I plead for a Civic Exhibition.
But with the blaze of the renascence the reform movement passed from Oxford to Cambridge.
The temptation to this latter practice must indeed have been great; for the fork which made its appearance at the dawn of the renascence in France was unknown in England two hundred years later.
About it the dawn of the renascencestill lingers; and the early morning light which presided at its birth still defines the shadows and seems to temper the noon-day heat, as light and shade alternate in its history.
The dawn of the coming renascence shone upon the walls at which we have been looking.
He anticipated the Renascencein an abnormal enthusiasm for art and music, and he seems to have held to the old paths of religion and charity.
Whether we regard it as the end of the Renascence or the end of the old mediæval civilization, no candid critic can deny that its chief glories ended with it.
With George there entered England something that had scarcely been seen there before; something hardly mentioned in mediæval or Renascence writing, except as one mentions a Hottentot--the barbarian from beyond the Rhine.
An angry sentence by Junius is as carefully compounded as a Renascence poison; but it is because Junius is really angry--like the poisoner.
The great Renascence might have been liberal with its liberal education.
Now it is true that the Church, by the Renascence period, had reached a considerable corruption; but the real proofs of it are utterly different both from the contemporary despotic pretence and from the common Protestant story.
Apart from its size, it is certainly the finest article of furniture in the house, the headboard being beautifully carved with grotesque figures in the Renascence style then in vogue.
The drama had future before it: the intellectual receptivity of the Renascence permeated all classes, and the country was prosperous and growing luxurious.
But the present incarnation of the spirit of the Renascence differs from its predecessor in the eighteenth century, in that it builds up, as well as pulls down.
And yet, for want of a better word, one is obliged to call it the romantic movement, as it was a new movement, a renascence that arose out of the ashes of the pseudo-classical eighteenth century convention.
This period was the darkest hour before the dawn of the second great renascence of Russian literature.
The ideals of the Renascence were caricatured in their offspring of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
During the first half of the nineteenth century there took place a considerable intellectual renascence in Bulgaria, a movement fostered by wealthy Bulgarian merchants of Bucarest and Odessa.
And the best people hate the whole business much too much to get any 'renascence of beauty' out of it.
We may expect a renascenceof beauty worthy to rank with the Romantic Revival born of the French wars.
