Its popularity has extended to all countries where it is not prohibited.
I think we may look for another reason of the book's popularity in the fact that Wilde, so far from inventing a new poetry, happened to summarize in himself the poetry of his time.
The prima donna soprano was Borghese, who was attractive in appearance, though not beautiful; who dressed well, sang with passionate intensity, and won a popularity that found vent in praise which may have been extravagant.
Thanks to Bizet's opera, and its heroine, and the popularity of Mme.
The first of these (if the reader will accept the instantaneous popularity of Mr. Seidl as a conclusion from the remarks made in his introduction in these annals) was the first appearance of Lilli Lehmann.
Signor Campanini essayed a second week and now threw his own popularityinto the scale.
Of the women singers the greatest popularity was won by Miss Eames, whose youthfulness, freshness of voice, and statuesque beauty, compelled general admiration.
Nicolai's opera, which has never lost its popularity with the Germans, was probably given on its merits alone, but the fact that Dr.
And it is perhaps worth noting here that letters have held their popularity with all fit judges almost better than any other division of literature.
But perhaps the excellence of the choicer examples in this time is not really more important than the abundance, variety and popularity of its letters, whether good, indifferent, or bad.
His preferment was but little, though his popularity was great.
Lady Woodstock herself would have been as religious, let the fashion be as it might; but we believe that the young ladies admired the popular preacher as much for his popularity as for his piety.
This popularity was, however, necessarily limited, limited in extent or intensity.
A performance, as a musical recording, movie, or play, which achieved great popularity or acclaim.
The best-known locks up to 1851 were those of Jeremiah Chubb, their popularity being due to their superior workmanship and probably still more to their title "detector.
In Neropolis his popularity had gone as popularityever does; the conflagration had killed it.
For years he reigned, popular and acclaimed, caring the while nothing for popularity and less for pomp.
To return to the Pope, although the shadow that has fallen on his popularity is in a great measure the work of his enemies, yet there is real cause for it too.
Must I not concede the weakest vanity, which bristles and blusters at each foolish taunt of the foreign press, and admit that the men who make these undignified rejoinders seek and find popularity so?
From that day forth no man enjoyed a like popularity in Tazewell County.
If the truth had been known Samson would have suffered a heavy loss of popularity in New Salem.
However of the charm and popularity of this young lady there is ample evidence in copies of The Democrat which are still preserved and in sundry letters and journals of that time.
A variety of other measures might be adduced to prove that the medical commissioner was fully deserving of the high degree of popularity which he enjoyed.
Your brother's popularity will not do him any good.
His popularity brought him some more substantial benefits, in the shape of briefs and fees, for his professional advice; in short, he had every reason to be satisfied with the progress he had made.
Your life offers a thousand enjoyments--a thousand temptations: it is full of purpose and splendour; glory and popularitysurround you.
Whatever influence I may have in the county, I owe to the popularity which I have obtained through my conduct; and if I were to follow your advice, I should lose my popularity.
Angy went out of doors with Miss Abigail, and puttered around among the flowers as if they were her own, thanking God for Abe's increasing popularity in the same breath that she gave thanks for the new buds of the spring.
From that first anniversary of his entrance into the Home, Abraham felt his popularity decrease--in fact more than decrease.
In the presence of the immense popularity of Mark Twain, it may seem paradoxical to call Lowell our greatest American humorist.
In the reign of queen Anne he turned the stream of popularity against the whigs, and must be confessed to have dictated, for a time, the political opinions of the English nation.
Of his four epick poems, the first had such reputation and popularity as enraged the criticks; the second was, at least, known enough to be ridiculed; the two last had neither friends nor enemies.
But the pleasure of popularity was soon interrupted by domestick misery.
Yet he was not a popular sovereign until he had long occupied the throne, and had perpetrated deeds that should have destroyed the greatest popularity that sovereign ever possessed.
There was no manner of employing wealth which seemed so appropriate to procure influence and popularity to its possessors, as that of contributing to enhance the magnificence of the national and religious festivals.
Under these circumstances, he began to fear that he had incurred a weight of enmity which might prove seriously mischievous, nor was he without jealousy of thepopularity and possible success of Pharnabazus.
By this he no doubt increased his popularity and his credit with the Republican party, but it cannot be denied that he very materially injured his private fortune.
It was in covering Ledru Rollin with the shield of his popularity that Lamartine lost his own, and that he ceased to be the political idol of a people of whom he must ever be regarded as one of the literary glories and illustrations.
Even the popularityof a Cartwright sags under such a strain.
But the aggressive elements in Cartwright’s make-up found still freer vent on the several occasions when he sought to transmute all this popularity into votes.
His popularityamong the people had meanwhile suffered no diminution.
The "Zauberfloete" rapidly gained popularity for Mozart's name, especially in North Germany.
The popularity of the opera with the general public spread rapidly, and very soon there was no stage in Germany where "Don Juan" had not acquired permanent possession.
The widespread popularity of quartet music in Vienna could not fail to impel Mozart to try his forces in this direction.
It is interesting to the writer to see the popularity of this style of an outdoor building, for, while he cannot lay claim to originating it, he was the first to publish the working drawings of a tree-house.
The popularity and wealth of the Benedictine order naturally led in many monasteries to relaxation of the rule.
She was not without a certain popularity, the sort of popularity that a dashing highwayman sometimes achieved among those who were not in the habit of travelling on his particular highway.
No one could justly say that the Shalems were either oppressively vulgar or insufferably bumptious; probably the chief reason for their lack of popularity was their intense and obvious desire to be popular.
We cannot better illustrate his popularity than by stating the fact, that more than four hundred thousand volumes of his various productions are now annually sold in this country and Europe.
Popularity in itself is no test of permanent literary fame, but the kind of it is and always has been a very decided one.
Indifferent poets comfort themselves with the notion that contemporarypopularity is no test of merit, and that true poetry must always wait for a new generation to do it justice.
