"Brunet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... opportunity shines upon them. A piece like the Despair of Jocrisse, which, after a lapse of years, may be still occasionally brought out, passes justly among the ephemeral productions for a classical work that has gained the crown of immortality. We must, however, see it acted by Brunet, whose face is almost a mask, and who is nearly as inexhaustible in the part of the simpleton as Puncinello ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel
... will hear with delight, That we're going, all three, to see BRUNET to-night A laugh will revive me—and kind Mr. Cox (Do you know him?) has ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... French armies are as follows: Custine commands the army of the North at Bouchain; Houchard that of the Moselle, at Sar Louis; Beauharnols, the army of the Rhine, at Wissenbourg; Kellerman, that of the Alps, at Chamberry; Brunet, that of Italy, at Nice; De Flers, that of the Eastern Pyrenees, at Bayonne; Biron, the army of the coasts of Nantes, at Nantes; and Wimpfer, that of the coasts of Cantal, at Bayeux. 7. The royalists in La Vendee obtain considerable advantages. Baron Trenck becomes ...
— Historical Epochs of the French Revolution • H. Goudemetz
... [Footnote 8: Brunet, 's.v.' "Breton de la Martiniere," gives the title of the work: 'Moeurs, usages costumes des Othomans, et abrege de leur histoire'. Par ...
— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron
... literature Brunet's Manual[27] stands pre-eminent in its popularity. It has held its own since 1810, when it was first published in three volumes, demy octavo. Graesse's Tresor[28] is less known out of Germany, but it also ...
— How to Form a Library, 2nd ed • H. B. Wheatley |
