popularity

Their popularity, so general at first, had suffered afterward; mainly because they had been TOO popular, and so a natural reaction had followed.

Certainly it is good to compound employments of both; for that will be good for the present, because the virtues of either age, may correct the defects of both; and good for succession, that young men may be learners, while men in age are actors; and, lastly, good for extern accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favor and popularity, youth.

"Overdue" was rushed upon the market by the Meredith-Lowell Company in the height of his popularity, and being fiction, in point of sales it made even a bigger strike than "The Shame of the Sun." Week after week his was the credit of the unprecedented performance of having two books at the head of the list of best-sellers.

The Author of the Waverley Novels had hitherto proceeded in an unabated course of popularity, and might, in his peculiar district of literature, have been termed L'Enfant G t of success.

His popularity soon awakened envy among the native braves; he was a stranger, an intruder, a white man.

Like a wise man he had set to work to rebuild the injured popularity of his house and stop up the gaps and ruins in which his name had been left by his disreputable and thriftless old predecessor.

Her daughter enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married.

An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good.

Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud; to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend.

Hancock, though he loved his country, yet thought quite as much of his own popularity as he did of the people's rights.

But though he did everything to alienate the sympathy of other boys he longed with all his heart for the popularity which to some was so easily accorded.

"Now I breathe again!" he cried, with the boyish gayety of manner which was one of the secrets of his popularity among women.