"Offenbach" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tail. Thus for a little time these friends manifested for each other their affection; and then the boy seated himself on the pavement beside the ass and drew forth from his pocket a large mouth-organ—on which he went to work with such a will that all the court-yard rang with the strains of Offenbach's music. ...
— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier
... recently set in operation between Frankfort and Offenbach furnishes an occasion for studying the question of such roads anew and from a practical standpoint. For elevated railways Messrs. Siemens and Halske a long time ago chose rails as current conductors. The electric railway from Berlin ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 • Various
... 174. 604.).—The late Mrs. Mills of Norwich (nee Andre) was not the sister of Major Andre; she was the only daughter of Mr. John Andre of Offenbach, near Frankfort on the Maine, in Germany; where he established more than eighty years ago a prosperous concern as a printer of music, and was moreover an eminent composer: this establishment is now in the hands of his grandson. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 223, February 4, 1854 • Various
... the Caran d'Aches, the Forains—who was it that called Forain "Degas en caricature"?—Willettes, and Toulouse-de-Lautrecs. He was a political pamphleteer, a scourger of public scamps, and a pictorial muck-raker of genius. His mockery of the classic in art was later paralleled by Offenbach in La Belle Helene. But there were other sides to his genius. Tiring of the hurly-burly of journalism, he retired in 1860 to devote ...
— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker |
