come to life vs emerge

come to life

verb
  • to become alive; to be brought into existence 

  • to bring back to life; revitalize, revive, resurrect 

  • to start to become energetic. 

  • to appear as if alive 

emerge

verb
  • To become known. 

  • To come out of a situation, object or a liquid. 

  • To come into view. 

How often have the words come to life and emerge occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )