At this exploit the plaudits of the assembly filled the blast; They hailed the knight whose bravery and skill had done the deed, And slain the hero of the ring, and saved his goodly steed, And done such pleasure to the King, and to Celinda fair, To the Queen of Spain and all her train who sat assembled there.

Poor M. acquiescedbut in his honest friendly face I could discern a working which told how much more acceptable the plaudit of a single hand (however misplaced) would have been than all this reasoning.

So lofty and godlike did he seem, amidst the plaudits of the schools, and his triumph over all the dignitaries that sought to humble him; so interesting was he to her by his wit, sarcasm, and eloquence,that she worshipped him, and deemed it the most exalted honor to possess exclusively his love in return, which he gave certainly to no one else.

So far as a life devoted to the military and political aggrandizement of a country makes a man a patriot, Frederic the Great will receive the plaudits of those men who worship success, and who forget the enormity of unscrupulous crimes in the outward glory which immediately resulted,yea, possibly of contemplative statesmen who see in the rise of a new power an instrument of the Almighty for some inscrutable end.

It was doubtless grateful to the dying King of Prussia to hear the plaudits of his idolaters, as he stood on the hither shores of eternity; but his view of the spectators as they lined those shores must have been soon lost sight of, and their cheering and triumphant voices unheard and disregarded, as the bark, in which he sailed alone, put forth on the unknown ocean, to meet the Eternal Judge of the living and the dead.

[Fr.], panegyric; homage, hero worship; benediction, blessing, benison. applause, plaudit, clap; clapping, clapping of hands; acclaim, acclamation; cheer; paean, hosannah; shout of applause, peal of applause, chorus of applause, chorus of praise &c; Prytaneum.

We too often praise the man who wins just because he wins; the plaudits and laurels of victory are the unthinking crowd's means of estimating success.

The ready plaudits of a fawning world Ring sweet in victor's ears; The vanquished's banners never are unfurled For them there sound no cheers.

Te sterili functum cura, vocumque salebris Tuto eluctatum, spatiis sapientia dia Excipit aethereis, ars omnis plaudit amico, Linguarumque omni terra discordia concors Multiplici reducem circumsonat ore magistrum.

The wool-workers had ceased their toil, the artists had left their botteghe, the markets were deserted, and all Florence forgathered in the Piazza to welcome "I Signori di Firenze!" Loud plaudits greeted the noble matron and her sonsnot the battle-cry "Palle!

While Mme de La Fayette was gaining the plaudits of the urbane world for the délicatesse of "La Princesse de Clèves" and the eccentric Duchess of Newcastle was employing her genius upon the fantastic, philosophical "Description of a New World, called the Blazing World" (1668), women of another stamp were beginning to write fiction.

he assured them the girl was to come to the infant school, and to be boarded there; which intelligence was received with loud plaudits.

Our poet, could he find forgiveness here, Would wish it rather than a plaudit there.

My dear Sir, with your well known charm of manner with men, and women as well, you could in that case win the lasting plaudits of your country, if you but possessed the resolution!"

Oh, when the lights are quenched, the music hushed, The plaudits still, Heaven keep the fountain, whence the fair stream gushed, From choking ill! Let Shakspeare's soul, that wins the world from wrong, For thee avail, And not one holy maxim of his song

So with the saints in glory shall I rise, To hear the welcome plaudit from the skies, "Well done."

This departure had the appearance of a triumphal procession; and this banished king, without a country, was greeted with as lively plaudits on leaving his place of exile as when he mounted his throne[20].

He walked dejectedly to the pavilion for his coat, and the boys, who were seated in crowds about it, received him, of course, after his brilliant score, with loud and continued plaudits.

When a good actor doth his part present, In every act he our attention draws, That at the last he may find just applause; So (though but short) yet we must learn the art Of virtue, on the stage to act our part; True wisdom must our actions so direct, Not only the last plaudit to expect; Yet grieve no more, though long that part should last, Than husbandmen, because the spring is past.

And, in coming nights of Autumn, when the vast Lyceum rings With reverberating plaudits, and the town thy praises sings, Memories of the sands at Lowestoft shall be with you ere you sleep; In your ears once more shall echo diapason of the deep.

The festivities rose to the highest pitch in September with Field receiving the plaudits of all New York.

Field received the deserved plaudits of his countrymen and Thomson was knighted in recognition of his achievements.

Were her antics played in the eye Of a thousand standers-by, Clapping hands with shout and stare, 35 What would little Tabby care For the plaudits of the crowd?

When tempest winnowed grain from bran; And men were looking for a man, Authority called you to the van, McClellan: Along the line the plaudit ran, As later when Antietam's cheers began.

And soon along the perilous line Flamed out the lurid warning sign, While round her staggering horse the crowd Surged with wild cheers and plaudits loud.