Literary notes about Revive (AI summary)
In literature, "revive" is a versatile term employed to convey both literal and figurative rejuvenation. It is used to bring characters or objects back to life, as when a physical resuscitation is depicted through a single breath or a restorative drink [1], [2], while simultaneously evoking the reawakening of emotions, memories, or long-dormant ideas [3], [4], [5]. The term also extends to restoring lost traditions or beliefs, as seen in the effort to rekindle fading religious embers or ancient customs [6], [7], [8]. Additionally, authors apply "revive" to reinvigorate discussions and intellectual debates, reviving a chain of thought or an argument with renewed vigor [9], [10]. This multiplicity of meanings demonstrates how the word "revive" bridges the physical and metaphorical, underscoring moments of transformation and renewal throughout literary history.
- But with my breath I can revive it, boy.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - I thought some drink might revive him; but there was neither drink nor vessel in which to bring drink at hand.
— from The island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells - She avoided going into the cottage, since she knew it would revive emotions, such as she could not now endure.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe - I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - When those that have passed from present sight revive in memory, they maintain their mutual order because their contents overlap.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - They were ordained by the Jacobite patriarch to cherish and revive the dying embers of Christianity: but the interposition of a for
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - It was probably designed to revive this ancient festival, which had been suppressed by Theodosius.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - The maintenance of the military State is the last means of adhering to the great tradition of the past; or, where it has been lost, to revive it.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche - He did not, as he had had to do with previous attempts to find comforting arguments, need to revive a whole chain of thought to find the feeling.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - If you please, then, I will revive the argument of Thrasymachus.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato
