come to life vs gladden

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 

gladden

verb
  • To cause (something) to become more glad. 

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