When it came into repute through the concerts of a favourite musical society being given within its walls, the house was decorated with a sign of Apollo's lyre, surmounted by a swan.
The London continued in repute among American visitors for many years.
There can be no question, however, that Chatelaine's ordinary was in great repute during the reign of Charles II, and that it continued in high favour throughout the latter years of the seventeenth century.
As a matter of fact the tavern was of the highest class and greatly in repute with the leaders of society and fashion.
Terms of peace with European Powers were made more favourable by the final success of Rodney at Dominica and of Elliot at Gibraltar; but the warlike repute of England fell lower than at any time since the Revolution.
On their way home from the scene of their treachery, the Swiss crowned their evil repute by seizing Bellinzona and the valley of the Ticino, which has remained one of their cantons.
And the longer these last, the more steadfastly does the ill-repute of such sovereigns abide.
Their ruler also suffers a loss because he is deprived of the services of good men, and suffers ill repute for the censure imposed upon them.
That he who is on the defensive and anticipates others' movements should incur injury and ill repute is inevitable.
Tunstal was as good a Catholic as Bonner; he left a different repute behind him, a clear enough indication of a difference in their deeds.
He enjoys high repute as a lecturer, more especially on educational subjects; and his sermons, some of which have been published, are said to be of an exceptionally high order.
Footnote 26: He was descended from a noble race, which at a very early period enjoyed high repute in Mecklenburg and Pomerania.
Alexander von Humboldt, who ruled the world with his scientific as Napoleon with his eagle glance, attained the highest repute among travellers of every nation.
But an honourable jealousy for the repute of our greatest writer was enough to warrant his dissatisfaction.
It is by such practices, Punch truly remarks, that "the Press is lowered in repute and people think it is the work of a vulgarian to write for it.
I marvel, indeed, greatly that a man so astute should not perceive that defence, where a King's Counsel and a Junior of great repute are engaged must mean a serious case, and that a serious case only means denial of the main charge.
His highest ambition was to restore among his fellow-townsmen the family repute which his father's misfortunes had imperilled.
A practice not entirely out of repute at the present day if we may credit a statement in the Courrier du Hâvre (as quoted in The Times newspaper, Nov.
The counteracting or preventive charms are as numerous as curious, not a few being in repute in some parts at this day.
Lilly, the most celebrated magician of the seventeenth century in England, was in the highest repute during the civil wars: his prophetic services were sought with equal anxiety by royalists and patriots, by king and parliament.
The painter had great repute in his time, and was one of the best of the seventeenth century men.
Caprara and Gorgona [2] move and make a hedge for Arno at its mouth, so that it drown every person in thee; for if Count Ugolino had repute of having betrayed thee in thy towns, thou oughtest not to have set his sons on such a cross.
The second division of the ninth circle; so named after the Trojan who, though of goodrepute in Homer, was charged by a later tradition with having betrayed Troy.
Such was the fell repute of this invincible little man that when his shrill, light voice made the inquiry chronicled, a silence fell on the crowd and no one answered.
That the glass of Barcelona was widely known and held in some repute before the end of the fifteenth century, the following notices go far to prove.
And the rest of the Egyptians who still remained on his side, when they saw the man of most repute among them thus suffering shameful outrage, waited no longer but joined the others in revolt, and delivered themselves over to Amasis.
It is certainly curious that in this way advice intended simply as a jest has been generally followed, so much so that a great part of the Campo Santo done by masters of repute is full of this clumsiness.
There was indeed, after Arnolfo, no other sculptor of repute in Tuscany except Fuccio, a Florentine architect and sculptor.
He pushed the work of his colonists into repute throughout the world, and was justified in saying to the Duke of Richelieu, "Give me a fair chance, and I am the man to build a city.
Allardyce, a physician of repute in Cheltenham, and brought, as part of her dowry, the skeleton of the 'Pygmie.
Repute every grave holie so as thou be well advised, that in no wise with thy feet thou tread upon it.
For owing to his carelessness he paid no attention to those who were wronged, and listened with ill-temper to those who addressed him, and had a bad repute about other men's wives.
For some account of the evil repute of those who dealt in these insurances, see vol.
There was a certain Octavius[209] who had the ill-repute of being a native of Libya, and on the occasion of a certain trial he said that he could not hear Cicero.
It is astonishing with what facility we gain bad repute from association with a certain class of men and things.
Personally I sought potatoes, and after patient inquiry I was directed to a man who had by generalrepute twelve sacks.
Philip’s power and repute had risen to such a pitch that even the pope found himself obliged to take into account the altered position of matters.
But Philip threatened the pope till a decree was passed disbanding the order because of the suspicion and ill repute into which it had fallen.
Besides Holy Scripture, the selection of patristic passages used by Valdez and the Moralia of Gregory the Great were in high repute as means of instruction and edification.
Strict asceticism with self-laceration and mortification was imposed in many cloisters, and many hermits won highrepute for holiness.
Yet these two confessions gradually rose in repute throughout German Switzerland.
Brigittæ ascribed to her were in high repute during the Middle Ages.
Such a "black list" is obviously open to the charge of doing great injustice to the good repute of writers named, since only a part of the works written by some of them can properly be objected to, and these are not specially named.
