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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...
...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...
... ‘but I like her a thousand times better than some conceited sec- ond-rate celebrity who would grimace and attitudinise all the while for effect. This...
...ntrate in my love every idea, every power that is in me. The most splendid celebrity is a possession that genius alone can create. Well, I can, at my ...
...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...
...ally—I don’t mean as a barber or yet as a tailor—would have struck me as a celebrity if celebrities often were striking. It was a truth of which I had...
... One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the other, a girl of the same country, a painter like Miriam her... ...uls along with it, to the hope of a paltry fee. Every work by an artist of celebrity is hidden behind a veil, and seldom revealed, except to Prot- est...
... obtained during the lively debates to which mesmerism gave rise a certain celebrity which occasionally recalled him to the minds of his relatives, st...
...e. 93 Thomas de Quincey name of tetrapharmacum, was so far from owing its celebrity to its royal birth, that it maintained its place on Hadrian’s tab...
...th its aspect. Even had the story of Drowne’s wooden image ended here, its celebrity might have been prolonged for many years by the reminiscences of ...
...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’...
...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...
...hee speak about this great lawsuit of thine, which has been matter of such celebrity.’ ‘Celebrity! Ye may swear that,’ said Peter, for the string was ...
...onors with the most consummate grace, and thus their fetes have a European celebrity. Franz and Albert had brought to Rome letters of introduction to ... ...the terror of the French government, but of whom, in spite of his national celebrity, you perhaps have not heard in Italy, since his paper is prohibit...
... 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...
...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...
...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 ...
...titude to Phemius, who had given him both sustenance and instruction.” His celebrity continued to increase, and many persons ad vised him to visit Gr...
...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 ...
...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...