"O Popular Applause what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms" "More than thy balm

Can he get out? BLACKBIRD Applause is salt on my tail!

His applause is not the tribute of his heart, but the sacrifice of his revenge.'

If they receive, implicitly, the dictates of others, and blindly adopt the opinions of those who have gained their favour and esteem, their applauses and complaints are, with respect to themselves, empty sounds, which they utter as the organs of their leaders.

The applause was a triumph.

The applause became a clamour.

" Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

The applause which his licentiousness produced, is too good a justification; besides, if he had not succeeded, he exposed himself to the fate of Eupolis, who, in a comedy called the Drowned Man, having imprudently pulled to pieces particular persons, more powerful than himself, was laid hold of, and drowned more effectually than those he had drowned upon the open stage.

'The applause of a single human being is of great consequence,' iv.

And he will then better estimate how powerful a curb to men is the open disapproval of their fellows; and how, conversely, the outward applause of their fellows is a stimulus surpassing all others in intensity.

Agony was nearly suffocating with pride; applause was the breath of life to her.

Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience.