People have envied me when they have heard me called the King of the Highlands--fools that did not know I was the poorest, weakest man of his time, surrounded by flatterers instead of friends.
The flatterers were forced to shout their compliments in loud tones so that the pretty Lorna could hear them above the noise of the breakers.
It is just this lot of flatterers and sillies that are ruining her.
That a man possessing such great genius, and with such far-reaching intuitions, should have allowed his mind and deeds to be influenced by the base flatterers who surrounded him, is strange indeed.
Still the herd of flatterers around her were forced to address her as a goddess of beauty, and she actually seemed to think she could play the part of a Venus at the age of sixty-five.
This often greatly embarrassed honest men, as they neither wished to vie with the flatterers in praising him to his face, nor yet to appear to grudge him his due share of admiration.
His chosen companions were flatterers sprung from the dregs of the people, and recommended by nothing but buffoonery and, servility.
He was perfectly aware that I possessed documents and data for writing his history which would describe facts correctly, and destroy the illusions with which his flatterers constantly, entertained the public.
He must be the object of universal, imprecation, for even here his flatterers appear astounded when they are out of his presence.
Ortogrul heard his flatterers without delight, because he found himself unable to believe them.
He left those who wished a patron to the tender mercies of Halifax, who fed fat on flattery and repaid his flatterers merely with a good word or a seat at his table.
Pope here describes the flattererswho were foolish enough to pay him personal compliments.
Pope replies that his flatterers are even more intolerable than his open enemies.
Flatterers forsake him too; for who would kill Himself, to be remembered in a will?
She is always surrounded by a whole court of flatterers and admirers.
Poets sang her praise under the name of Urania;[12] flatterers sought her smiles by likening her to the goddesses of love and beauty, and she lived in a perpetual atmosphere of pleasure and adulation.
Yet, Eubulus, though I be gone, here after time shall try, There shall be found even in this court as great flatterers as I.
And now in the king’s ear like a bell he rings, Crying that flatterers have been the destroyers of kings.
You have not only the public enemies to fear: there are the numberless conspiracies, the envy and hatred of your courtiers; you have flatterers enough, but not one friend; their seeming goodwill is the work of fear or ambition.
But God those flattererswill confound, Qu: whether flatterers That with abusive lies abound, usually abound with And proudly boast their vicious ways, abusive lies?
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