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In 'Harold' , Dr. Cowen attempted too ambitious a task. The tale of the conquest of England was ill suited to his delicate muse, and the opera achieved little more than a succès d'estime. His name is of course principally associated with the long series of light operas written in conjunction with Mr.
Yet let me tell you, where Religion Is made a cloke to our bad purposes They seldom have succes. Bar.
In the end he came to realize that he had achieved that most cruel of all literary ironies, the succes d'estime. The critics agreed that he had written a most unusual book; but then, the critics did not really count they had no way of making their verdict effective. What determined success or failure was the department-store public.
Fortunately there was no necessity for quarrelling; these foreigners were well received in every company, and Emilie pleased universally; or, as Mad. de Coulanges expressed it, "Elle avoit des grands succes dans la societe." The French comtesse herself could hardly give more emphatic importance to the untranslateable word succes than Mrs. Somers annexed to it upon this occasion.
Now take your rest, my lords: for what care followes Leave it to me. All. We wish it all succes, Sir. Bar. This from the King of Fraunce, of much importance, And this from Englands Queene, both mightie Princes And of immortall memories: here the Rewards sett, They lou'd me both. The King of Swechland this, About a Truyce; his bounty, too. What's this?
Mark Tapley succeeded in being jolly in adverse circumstances; Gilray failed, on the whole, in being miserable in a delightful house-boat. It is, however, so much more difficult to keep up misery than jollity that I like to think of his attempt as what the dramatic critics call a succès d'estime. The Tawny Owl lay on the far side of the island.
"Rester sur un grand succes," which was Rossini's advice to a young singer who had achieved a triumph, is a maxim which the world often follows, not only from prudence, but from necessity. They have done so much that it seems neither prudent nor possible to do more. They will rest and be thankful.
'I might have escaped if I would marry, the girl replied. 'Do you call that escaping? She has succeeded with you, but is it a part of what the Marquise calls her succès de bonté? 'Yes, that's your loyalty, and I could shoot you for it! he exclaimed, making her pause on the threshold of the adjoining room.
Just as she was water-borne, Le Compte dashed a bottle against the tiller, and shouted, at the top of his voice, "succes a la Belle Emelie." I turned to Emily, and saw by the blush that she understood French, while the manner in which she pouted her pretty plump lip betrayed the humour in which the compliment had been received.
"Do not let your cousin frighten you from knowing me, Monsieur le Marquis; when he was my pupil, he so convinced me of the incorrigibility of perverse human nature, that I now chiefly address myself to the moral improvement of the brute creation. Ask the Contessa if I have not achieved a beau succes with her Angora cat.
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