"Emboldened" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... has left him today without a living rival in the world. In 1898, with the volume called Wessex Poems, embellished with illustrations from his own hand, he challenged criticism as a professional poet. The moderate but definite success of this collection emboldened him to produce in 1901, Poems of the Past and Present. In 1904, 1906, 1908, were issued successively the three parts of The Dynasts, a thoroughly original and greatly-planned epical drama of the Napoleonic ...
— The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century • William Lyon Phelps
... advantage that an independent government would be to the hopes of his poorer neighbors, he declared for the king. After the declaration of independence had been published, his sympathies were illustrated in an unpleasantly practical manner by gathering a troop of other Tories about him, and, emboldened by the absence of most of the men of his vicinage in the colonial army, he began to harass the country as grievously in foray as the red-coats ...
— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner
... I, seeing some reluctance on Fitz.'s part to take the wager, and getting emboldened in consequence, "let the judgment be pronounced over a couple of dozen of champaigne, ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 2 • Charles James Lever
... Effie, emboldened by her brother's looks of anxiety, 'give it to the poor woman with the ...
— Effie Maurice - Or What do I Love Best • Fanny Forester
... Archipelago—depended upon the yearly ventures the hazard of which was not so much the ordinary uncertainty of the sea as the risk of capture by English freebooters. Everybody in the Philippines had heard of these daring English mariners, who were emboldened by an almost unbroken series of successes which had correspondingly discouraged the Spaniards. They carried on unceasing war despite occasional proclamation of peace between England and Spain, for the Spanish treasure ships were tempting prizes, and though at times ...
— Lineage, Life, and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot • Austin Craig
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