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...well, he saw that so vulgar and ignoble a name as Cabot could never attain celebrity. Monsieur de Parny, whose hair he cut, gave him the name of Mariu... ...en, in Paris, from a desire to reach more rapidly than by natural ways the celebrity which to them is fortune, artists borrow the wings of circumstanc...

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...at humorsome tyranny, which, at a later date, con- tributed no less to his celebrity than his talent and his vast fortune, which was said to be due to...

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...ally—I don’t mean as a barber or yet as a tailor—would have struck me as a celebrity if celebri- ties often were striking. It was a truth of which I h...

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...rt, and troubled it. But the trouble was pleasure. The purple mantle which celebrity had draped for a moment round Nathan’s shoulders dazzled the inge... ...ked one another according to circumstances. This Bohemian resort, to which celebrity was the only ticket of admission, was a Hades of the mind, the ga... ..., done ten years of misery, strangled two or three passions, acquired some celebrity, either by books or waistcoats, by dramas or fine equipages; plot... ... the thing well, a woman ought to fasten upon some 97 Balzac good prey, a celebrity, a man of enough wit to give and take. There’s Nathan; will you h...

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... Madame de Stael, she kept her freedom and was thus more excusable for her celebrity, would be to satisfy many curiosities and do jus- tice to one of ... ...ame and work to criticism. In spite of any such desire, if she had it, her celebrity in- creased daily, partly through the influence of her salon, par... ...ess alone knew the se- cret of her writings and of her connection with the celebrity of Camille Maupin. But at the period of which we are now writing ... ...f a real society. In those days I thought her con- sumed with a desire for celebrity of one kind or another. Nevertheless, she has really much grandeu... ...ay a part in the eyes of society. She is one of those women who prefer the celebrity of a scan- dal to tranquil happiness; they fly in the face of soc... ...r to reign supreme over a salon. She then bethought herself of seeking the celebrity of the Duchesse de Langeais and the Vicomtesse de Beauseant. But ... ... her hair in bands as smooth and shining as ebony. Madame Schontz owed her celebrity as a pretty woman to the brilliancy and freshness of a complex- i...

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...Ginevra di Piombo. This caused some embar- rassment to the young pair. The celebrity of the bride’s name attracted attention, and the spectators seeme...

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...great man.” “There must indeed have been some good in him.” “He was a high celebrity. You’ve often heard of him.” Baron wondered an instant. “I’ve no ...

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...her again in familiar contact with Henry St. George. Sitting next her this celebrity was also opposite our young man, who had been able to note that h...

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...y would hear no more of the transaction. Among resident artists he enjoyed celebrity of a non- professional sort. He had spent more money—no less than... ...on all sides: heard of his yacht, his chaise and four, his brief season of celebrity amid a more confiding population, his daughter, of whom he loved ...

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...ithful sketch of the tyrant Sowster, which, as he has acquired this infamous celebrity, you will no doubt wish to have engraved for the purpose of pre...

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...Canalis, one of the most famous poets of the day, and as yet a newly risen celebrity, was prouder of his birth than of his genius, and dangled in Mme.... ... bald praise, forgotten as soon as read, and it costs more in consequence. Celebrity, 91 Balzac my dear fellow, is based upon controversy. I am a hir... ...ller in the trade is not so insolent, so hard-hearted to a newcomer as the celebrity of the day. The bookseller sees a possible loss of money, while t...

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...d Badge of Courage,” a work of imagination which found its short moment of celebrity in the last decade of the departed century. Other books followed....

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...her how he had played the violin in a little band of musicians—not of high celebrity— who traveled through foreign lands giving provincial con- certs....

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...,” a 97 Joseph Conrad work of imagination which found its short moment of celebrity in the last decade of the departed cen- tury. Other books followe...

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...furnished the house with all the elegancies of Parisian homes for an Opera celebrity; and to him Les Aigues owes the restoration of its ground floor i... ... to the ceiling and adorned with glass pendants, were the beginning of the celebrity of the then Cafe de la Guerre. There, from 1802 to 1804, all the ...

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...e when he proposed to scare Nicodemus to death, and explained how he was going to do it. He had a noble new skeleton—the skeleton of the late and only... ...rently from the living rock; and what is more, they are written all over with thou- sands of names; some of them—like Byron’s and Victor Hugo’s—of the...

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...e benefit of such of my readers as are unacquainted with her now forgotten celebrity, that she was a phenomenon in the mesmeric line; one of the earli...

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..., arising out an announcement by Mr. Nikola Tesla, the American electrical celebrity, that he had received a message from Mars. His announcement renew...

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...lever man; and this is really the reason why Dr. Sloper had become a local celebrity. At the time at which we are chiefly concerned with him, he was s...

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...er sister’s side at this con- junction. Mrs. Farlow had spoken of her as a celebrity (in what line Anna failed to recall); but Mrs. Farlow’s celebriti...