Had Lord Byron's public career closed when he left England, he would have been remembered for a generation as the author of some musical minor verses, a clever satire, a journal in verse exhibiting flashes of genius, and a series of fascinating romancesalso giving promise of higher powerwhich had enjoyed a marvellous popularity.

Mieroslawsky, who had been one of the leaders of the Polish movement of 1846, had gained much popularity in Berlin; and he seemed fully disposed to combine the movement for the independence of Posen with that for the freedom of Prussia, much in the same way as Kossuth had combined the cause of Hungarian liberty with the demand for an Austrian constitution.

He not only achieved distinction in his profession and became a Queen's Counsel, but wrote a book which attained a well-deserved popularity, and was entitled "Ten Thousand a Year.

Months later, when he left France amid general indifference if not distrust, President Wilson must have realized that he had lost, not popularity, but prestige, the one sure element of success for the head of a Government, much more so for the head of a State.

He had never liked "doctoring" anyway, although he had submitted to it more or less during the past year in unconscious subservience to his desire to increase his popularity; but now he fancied that where once he had been served as a king by all these female attendants, he was simply being "pestered" as a punishment for his past behavior with Blossy.

Steele lost his position as gazetteer, and the Tatler was discontinued after less than two years' life, but not till it won an astonishing popularity and made ready the way for its successor.

A man who is a prince and prefers to drop the title need not seek popularity in London.

Now Evolution as a philosophy or explanatory hypothesis owes its popularity to its apparent simplicity.

If they could not rescue their master, they would at least endeavor to avenge him, while the new King could acquire an easy popularity by execrating a crime of which he and Francis of Brittany would reap all the advantage.

This gives 'em a popularity which $500 worth of paid-for advertisements wouldent bring 'em.

"Lady Dredlinton seems to be achieving great popularity in every direction," he said sourly.

That perhaps explains the enormous popularity of contemporary pornographic and so-called sex literature.

Amulets are still prevalent in catholic countries at the present day; the Spaniards and Portuguese maintain their popularity.

Their whole moral philosophy, if we may believe Arnauld and Pascal, was a tissue of casuistry; truth was obscured in order to secure popularity; even the most diabolical persecution was justified if heretics stood in the way.

I can freely affirm this inasmuch as, risking all popularity, I have always done my duty as a statesman, pointing out that solution which time has proved to be inevitable.

This field of research has been largely worked of late years, and has obtained considerable popularity in this country, and on the Continent.

It is now well-thumbed literary history that The Luck of Roaring Camp (August, 1868, Overland) and The Outcasts of Poker Flat (January, 1869, Overland) brought him a popularity that, in its suddenness and extent, had no precedent in American literature save in the case of Mrs. Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin.

" It was no mean achievement to establish the popularity of a poetry which was by its purity a rebuke to much that had hitherto passed current and received applause.

These, and his other peasant stories, will always retain their popularity.

And this devotion of the queen to the society of the Polignacs and Guimenées, "her society," as she sometimes called it, had also a mischievous effect in diminishing her popularity with the great body of the nobles.

Public men had very little moral principle in those days, and they would accordingly resort to any means whatever to procure this personal popularity.

Circumstances to which she contributed only indirectly enhanced her popularity and weakened the effects of the mistress's hostility.

He had shown himself willing to court a base popularity with the mob by heaping uncalled-for insults on the king and queen.

Why attack idols; why quarrel with his own interests; why destroy his popularity?

He had now recovered his popularity, and was generally spoken of as "the great pacificator.