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...at some dinner and took her down, rather flattered at offering my arm to a celebrity. She didn’t look like one, with her matronly, mild, inanimate fac...

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...that if placed in a proper situation to profit by them, I should ac- quire celebrity, and presently become a modern Orpheus, whose mystic sounds would... ...n of effecting a revolution in the art, and by that means of ac- quiring a celebrity which, in the fine arts, is in Paris mostly accompanied by fortun... ...ry middling success, al- though the Abbe des Fontaines promised to give it celebrity, and, notwithstanding the other journalists, had spoken of it ver... ...ife I had determined to pursue; and was of opinion, that a copyist of some celebrity in the republic of letters was not likely to want employment. The... ... du Roi, Coin de la Reine,—[King’s corner,—Queen’s corner.]— then in great celebrity. The dispute, as it became more animated, produced several pamphl... ...; the first has been shown about in the world; the second has not the same celebrity: friendship proceeds with less noise. Amongst the connections I m... ... of his sentiments with respect to me changed af- ter I acquired a greater celebrity than he already had. But the first time I discovered his insincer...

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...ug- gling in deadly combat the events which resulted from them had a fatal celebrity. Everybody knows that the Villele min- istry was overthrown by th...

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...ures were wrought by means of it in Eu- rope, none equalled in success and celebrity those which the Soldan achieved. It is still in existence, having...

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... a rival and successful competitor; and his rival, instead of being some unknown, obscure gardener, was the godson of Mynheer Cornelius de Witt, that ... ...y, a celebrity. Boxtel, as the reader may see, was not possessed of the spirit of Porus, who, on being conquered by Alexander, 45 Dumas consoled hims...

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...rd Mrs. Leo Hunter greater pleasure, if her guests saw a gentleman of your celebrity in his own costume, rather than in an assumed one. I may venture ...

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...e wrapping up the package. Dyke’s enthusiasm had made of his little girl a celebrity throughout Bonneville. The ex-engineer promptly became voluble, a...

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...of sadness on one angel’s face? No. ‘They sent abroad, to artists of great celebrity in those times, and having obtained the church’s sanction to thei...

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...el; “I told you he was some- thing distinguished.” “My dear Rachel, if his celebrity be in proportion to the rest of the story.” “Then there really wa...

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......................................................................... 299 CELEBRITY. ................................................................... ... proof, Save by his happy tendency T o soil the church’s roof? 300 Goethe CELEBRITY. [A satire on his own Sorrows of Werther.] ON bridges small and b...

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...of nature? The glasses jingled, and the palates tingled; The diners of celebrity dined well; The ladies with more moderation mingled In th...

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.... He was in all respects a remarkable man. He held his age better than any celebrity that has figured in history; and the longer he lived the stronger...

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...ffrey, Horner, Benjamin Constant, Robert Emmet, and many a legal and local celebrity besides. By an accident, variously explained, it has its rooms in...

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...Excerpt: Bianchon, a physician to whom science owes a fine system of theoretical physiology, and who, while still young, made himself a celebrity in the medical school of Paris, that central luminary to which European doctors do homage, practiced surgery for a long time before he took up medicine. His earliest studies were guided by one of the greatest of Fre...

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...stem of theoretical physiology, and who, while still young, made himself a celebrity in the medical school of Paris, that cen- tral luminary to which ...

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...sitor whom she had expected to find pre- sentable only on the score of his celebrity, and put forth all her coquetries and accomplishments. Apparently...

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... Obligations” obtained for him, at the moment of its production, a certain celebrity in the University of Oxford; and it was understood in clerical an... ... a famil- iar figure in the streets of Castel-le-Gachis; he became a local celebrity, and was pointed out as “the man who was looking for the Commissa...

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...est comes up close behind the mansion, and of itself gives a character and celebrity to the place. The Chase of Chaldicotes—the greater part of it, at...