I think the Government are earning a rather second-rate kind of succes d'estime, but I fancy I detect signs of feebleness and inefficiency, which will become obvious when real difficulty arises.
Sir Henry Irving had thought that Becket (then unpublished) would prove too expensive, and could only be a succes d'estime.
The work was received with immense enthusiasm throughout the tour, excepting at Leipzig, where it achieved only a succes d'estime.
A month or two to ruyn whatsoever The good succes of forty yeeres employment In the most serious affaires of State Have raisd up to his memory?
Just about this time I had planned and partly executed a new comedy, which afterwards obtained a succes de scandale under the title of Le Droghe d'Amore.
Although it could not win the succes de scandale which made it so profitable to his pocket at Venice, the performance gave rise to fresh prepossessions against Signor Gratarol.
He had chosen for performance Beethoven's E flat Concerto and unaccompanied solos by Schumann and Schubert, but achieved at most a succes d'estime.
And when Robertson tried his fortune elsewhere, even when supported by a popularity so well established as that of Sothern, the result was invariably but a succes d'estime, when not a disastrous failure.
Macready played once more in Paris in 1846, but the times were changed, and he achieved only a succes d'estime.
It was only a succes d'estime, the Court of Russia and the Muscovite populace not being greatly moved by it.
It met with a succes d'estime only on its production in London, but this had more to do with party feeling in operatic matters at the time than with the actual merits of the work.
Again, after he had received the news of the battle of Sedgemoor, "Dieu soit loue du bon succes que les troupes du Roy ont eu contre les rebelles.
Mark, he said, might compass a succes d'estime--nothing more.
When the fourth act was nearly finished, Sybil Perowne appeared in a new play, an adaptation of a French drama, which had enjoyed a succes fou in Paris.
In his earlier works, he confined his sins to an attack upon Missionaries and the starchings of civilisation: sins that won him a succes de scandal.
And its success was none the less brilliant because it was in part a succes de scandal.
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