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...escape bore witness to a courage, intelligence, and coolness which won him celebrity without his knowl- edge, and that transient fame of which Paris s...

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...the most anxious pre- cautions against noise, we had made out to pierce below the curtain about the south-west corner, in a place they call the Devil’...

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...ips, and five big baskets of fruit as free- will offerings to the captain. Captain Morse had us all to lunch; champagne flowed, so did compliments; an...

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...onable enough that Montaigne should expect for his work a certain share of celebrity in Gascony, and even, as time went on, throughout France; but it ...

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... the Caspian Sea; and it was from this mountain home he obtained that evil celebrity among the Crusaders as the Old Man of the Mountains, and spread t...

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... the expense of the young man’s extrava- gance. Perhaps Emile’s precocious celebrity and the good fig- ure that he made strengthened the bonds of his ...

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...rovincial house? and was the daughter of the Cinq-Cygnes frightened by the celebrity of Madame de Cadignan, her tastes and her ruinous extravagance? I...

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... hens, made a wonder of and a show, spent their remaining years in eggless celebrity. The reader who is hungry for fuller details in these matters is ...

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...us Friends of Freedom, at her house in the Place Vendome; with tem- porary celebrity, with graces and wreathed smiles; not with- out cost. There, amid...

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...our together again, 625 Dumas we should not, I am not sure, be twenty-four hours in prison without getting free.” “My friend, since I killed Chatillo...

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...ts the notion that the killers of Columbine com- mitted their acts to gain celebrity status. Now there is nothing better than being a celebrity, someo... ...admirers and are role models. Most people would think of a movie star when celebrity is mentioned, but that is not always the case. A celebrity can be... ...e, and, though most people do not want to admit it, they can be killers. A celebrity can also be a combination of positive and negative characteristic... ...person is a negative influence, then the parents must intervene. Attaining celebrity status is a motive for murder because there is such a strong desi... ...ren watch tele- vision and see all the glory that comes along with being a celebrity. Ask children what they want to be when they grow up or whom they... ...nt. Two of the major ones are that there is not enough evidence to support celebrity status as a cause and the other is revenge is the greater cause o... ... become violent. The argument that there is not enough evidence to support celebrity status as a cause is a good one. There is no documented scientifi... ...cause. In this essay there are many examples that lead one to believe that celebrity sta- tus plays a major role in the decision of youths to take vio... ...group was not the point. This shows that their actions may have been about celebrity as much as if not more than cruelty. “They wanted to be famous,” ...

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...onstantly fretted by petty wrongs, or by leaden insults, to which only the celebrity of their ob- ject lent force or wings, allowed little opportunity... ...and of Latin more than a little; for the Latin notes to Mr. Cary (of Dante celebrity) though brief, are sufficient to reveal a true sense of what is g... ... less. At this mo- ment we have in our eye a work, at one time not without celebrity, which is one continued cento of splendid passages from other peo... ...e lustre of all these performances, however, is eclipsed by the unrivalled celebrity amongst German critics of the 185 Thomas de Quincey Faust. Upon ...

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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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... polishing on which the rust has long accumulated. It was a School of some celebrity in its neighbourhood—nobody could have said why—and we had the ho...

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...is the man Robert Burns; that the “rank is but the guinea-stamp;” that the celebrity is but the candle-light, which will show what man, not in the lea...

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...n some such adventitious way before he ever could have risen to his German celebrity. What was it that raised him to his momentary distinction? Was it...

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...ple had for a long time respected, covered as it was with the name of Retz, so redoubtable in the country. Shortly after the erection of this seignory...

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...t he had called to inquire about the dinner they were giving next day to a celebrity who had just arrived. 91 Tolstoy “And nothing would induce him t...

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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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...King’s council establish an augury of evil. Three other ill omens, of some celebrity, occurred to Charles I., viz., on occasion of creating his son Ch...

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... Trinity Col- lege, Dublin, but did not then give much prom- ise of future celebrity. He, however, observed to Mr. Malone, that ‘though he made no gre...

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... had but yesterday, as one might say , subsided into private life from the celebrity of the elope- 397 Charles Dickens ment and the events that follo...

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...d us Friends of Freedom, at her house in the Place Vendome; with temporary celebrity, with graces and wreathed smiles; not without cost. There, amid w...

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....” Crowns have adorned others, but she adorned her crowns. It was a swift celebrity the assassin achieved. And it is marked by some curious contrasts... ...rtion as to how large or how small had been their intercourse with the new celebrity. The two or three who had really been on a sort of familiar footi... ... of Stratford. Does this mean that in Stratford he was not re garded as a celebrity of any kind? “We are privileged to assume”—no, we are indeed ob... ...dn’t and wouldn’t have hap pened in his case if he had been regarded as a celebrity at the time of his death. When I examine my own case—but let us d... ...uirer some first hand things about him if he had in those last days been a celebrity and therefore a person of interest to the villagers. Why did not ... ...on that the Stratford Shakespeare was a person of no public consequence or celebrity during his lifetime, but was utterly obscure and unimportant. And...

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...er is a very remarkable man, Addy. His name is Mazzini Dunn. Mazzini was a celebrity of some kind who knew Ellie’s grandparents. They were both poets,...

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...greater despots than Ferdinand II., yet he alone has had the unfor- tunate celebrity of kindling a thirty years’ war; but to produce its lamentable co...

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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...