As long as good fortune waited upon Napoleon, his most ambitious attempts commanded the applauses of the nation.
Instead of those unanimous transports, he received only the applauses of the populous part of the capital, that he had occasion to traverse; and his detractors did not fail, to compare this reception with that of Louis XVIII.
To add to the pre-eminence of the art, the applauses of the many were sanctioned by the critical canons of the few.
Aristophanes thus vigorously describes the applauses that attended the earlier productions of Cratinus.
But the laughter and applauses were increased by what followed.
Each word, that applied to Mary, was followed by a cheer from the bystanders, and when it was ended, the applauseswere deafening.
His speech received several interruptions from the applauses of his guests; and Hairun, who was bent upon mischief, thought this a favourable opportunity for practising it.
Here Barnave's voice was lost in the applauses of the majority, and the Assembly electrified, seemed for the moment unanimous in its monarchical feeling.
His impassive brow involuntarily brightened at the smiles and applauses of the Jacobins.
It was invariably accompanied by the applauses of the people.
The unanimous applauses of the chamber, and the tribunes ardent for liberty, but kindly disposed towards the king, demonstrated that the nation entered with enthusiasm into this conquest of the constitution.
This abdication of his dignity near the throne to assume the dignity of a citizen, procured him the applauses of the nation.
These applauses sounded gloomily in the council-chamber of Madame Roland.
My voice was stifled there; but I preferred rather to excite the murmurs of the enemies of truth, than to obtain applauses that were disgraceful.
The applauses of France sweetened the disgrace of the court.
There had been dedications of books to Cromwell, and applauses of him in prose and verse, from the time of his first great successes as a Parliamentary General; and such things had been increasing since, till they defied enumeration.
There he played a higher order of parts, and played them better, Winning applauses from the easy provincial cities, and taking, as everywhere the ladies by storm.
Negotiation was thus declared to be at an end; and the Army, delighted with the news, burst into applauses of Parliament, and vowed to live or die with it in the common cause.
With regard to the Supreme Council, the members who chose (for it was choice only) to attend to the orders which were issued from the languishing authority of the Directors continued to receive unprofitable applauses and no support.
Let them rejoice in the applauses of the club at Dundee for their wisdom and patriotism in having thus applied the plunder of the citizens to the service of the state.
I am sure many of the members who compose even the majority of that body must feel as I do, notwithstanding the applauses of the Revolution Society.
He thought that in witnessing the applauses bestowed on actors, and sharing in the fascination in which theatrical illusion holds an audience, my old passion for the stage, and with it the longing for an artiste's fame, would revive.
At that sentiment, vehemently delivered, the applauses were frantic, and Fox in his excitement began to bark.
Rapturous indeed were the applauses with which the sentences that breathed haughty defiance were hailed by the Assembly.
But the congratulations and applauses of his friends could not drown the roar of execration which the Jacobites set up.
The voice of detraction, however, was for a time drowned by the loud applauses of the Parliament and the City.
While I am pleading, she places persons to inform her from time to time how I am heard, what applauses I receive, and what success attends the cause.
There were the loudestapplauses on this acquittal almost ever known in a court of justice.
He brought back with him the Applauses of their Majesties, and the Court of England, the Esteem of honest Men, and the Affection of the Citizens of London.
Numberless applauses arose, almost throughout the whole Assembly, and in the Galleries.
Some murmurs arise, but they are lost in the applauses from the majority of the Assembly.
The fifth of their number alone tarried in the lists long enough to be greeted by the applauses of the spectators, among whom he retreated, to the aggravation, doubtless, of his companions' mortification.
The assembly gazes with astonished eyes, And sends in shouts applauses to the skies.
Thus sung the bard: Ulysses hears with joy, And loud applauses read the vaulted sky.
The other sages, who had not yet spoken, would have excused themselves, and had their silence passed over in favour of the applauses they gave to the uncommon sense of her who had confounded those who preceded them.
This exploit of courage and intrepidity gained him, together with the applauses of his Sovereign, the office of commander-in-chief of all his troops.
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