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... Henry James value should not have been treated by his contemporaries as a celebrity. We manage things very differently to-day. The immediate successo... ...weak lungs; and this rather melancholy tradition, together with the former celebrity of the school of medi- cine still existing there, but from which ... ...t at a Shrewsbury or a Buffalo. It is true that the place enjoys a certain celebrity at home, which it amply deserves, moreover; for nothing could be ... ... rages and roars at its base—that I had no difficulty in understanding the celebrity of Vaucluse. I understood 174 A Little Tour in France it, but I ...

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...tent neutralizing literature. The most conspicuous result of George Sand’s celebrity was to elicit the fact that France has a per- fectly enormous num... ... fame as a substitute for her disappointed ambitions. Poetry and dreams of celebrity, which had lulled her grief since her meeting with Anna Grossetet... ... and by the cure was full of expedient. Every Wednesday he introduced some celebrity from Germany, England, Italy, or Prussia to his dear Count- ess; ...

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... natural enough that a shake of the box should have tossed Nat Fulmer into celebrity, and sent Violet Melrose chasing back from the ends of the earth ... ... the little air-tight salon. While she poured out the tale of Nat’s sudden celebrity, and its unexpected consequences, Susy marvelled and dreamed. Was...

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... these words. My relations with the Marchioness of Dudley had a disastrous celebrity. At an age when the senses have dominion over our 163 Balzac con... ... love surprised her. She felt so strong a necessity for excitement, noise, celebrity, that nothing attained to her ideal in this respect; hence her vi...

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... obtained during the lively debates to which mesmerism gave rise a certain celebrity which occasionally recalled him to the minds of his relatives, st...

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... of his father- in-law—”Carleon Anthony, the poet, you know.” Proud of his celebrity without approving of his character. It was on that account, I str...

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...dy and laid in bed. My official friend Pangloss is lineally descended from a learned doctor of that name, who was once tutor to Candide, an ingenious ...

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...omething to show for his pow- ers, before he assumed the airs of a spoiled celebrity. But to Rowland and to most friendly observers this judgment was ...

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...how to use it particu- larly well—so well, indeed, as to have given them a celebrity on the frontier; twice that number who were believed to be much b...

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...he paper—to oblige old Dunster. But we shall put your arrival in—our local celebrity.” “Heavens!” “Y es. Mr. G. Renouard, the explorer, whose indomita...

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...f all kinds. We must do him the justice to say that he knew nothing of the celebrity or the extent of the 6 The Village Rector association he origina...

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...ve measured them as within a few hours easy reach. Mountain-peaks of great celebrity in the valleys, whence no trace of their existence was visible so...

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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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...was a brave fellow, and had done mighty feats of arms in his time. His chief celebrity rested upon the events of an excursion like this one of mine, ... ...referred to was Sir Ossaise of Surluse, a brave knight, and of considerable celebrity on account of his hav ing tried conclusions in a tournament on... ...n. By and by we went to see one of the supremely great ones. He was a mighty celebrity; his fame had penetrated all Christendom; the noble and the ren... ...igures in the air and on the floor, — the regular thing, you know. He was a celebrity from Asia — so he said, and that was enough. That sort of evide...

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...re. To my astonishment, the hon- ors paid by the departments to a Parisian celebrity awaited me. I am the hero of a banquet, for all the world as if I...

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... and after Steynham, Holdesbury, which had never yielded him the same high celebrity, but both lay mapped out for action under the profound calculatio...

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... a paper, which (though now forgotten) obtained, at the moment, most undue celebrity. For it is one of the infirmities of the public mind with us, tha...

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...on having heard of the gentleman, but he strikes me for all the world as a celebrity. Now who is he? I can’t put my finger on him—I can’t give him a l...

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...this permission the writer fancied he detected a vague desire for personal celebrity. This man, apparently still young, with fair hair and blue eyes, ...

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...ing, a commendable habit of mine, or because Foedora hailed in me a coming celebrity, an addition to her learned menagerie; for some reason I thought ...

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...us had at heart the same jealousy. Neither of them cared about the kind of celebrity dear to the ordinary collector. And now for Elie Magus came his c...

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...e remark was taken up by Mr. Chichely, a middle aged bachelor and coursing celebrity, who had a complex ion something like an Easter egg, a few hairs... ...m the range of London intrigues, jealousies, and social truckling, and win celebrity, however slowly, as Jenner had done, by the independent value Mi... ...pellmeister in a country which offers more plentiful conditions of musical celebrity. Rosamond, with the executant’s instinct, had seized his manner o... ... the morrow and drive with them. Will could not omit Thorwaldsen, a living celebrity about whom even Mr. Casaubon inquired, but before the day was far... ...hout doubt he would leave Middlemarch, go to town, and make himself fit for celebrity by “eating his dinners.” But not immediately: not until some kind...