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I'll privily away; I love the people,
But do not like to stage me to their eyes;
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I'll privily away; I love the people,
But do not like to stage me to their eyes;
Though it do well, I do not relish well
Their loud applause and aves vehement,
Nor do I think the man of safe discretion
That does not affect it.
O Popular Applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
O Popular Applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life read more
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for read more
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the
world, is the highest applause.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the
world, is the highest applause.
Fare ye well, and give us your applause.
[Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.]
Fare ye well, and give us your applause.
[Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.]
Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause.
Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause.
