 It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and...  Readings in science and literature - Page 309by Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphmesa, at Versailles ; ears, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your...been pushing on my work through difficulties, of whi just began to move in — glittering like the morning star full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...now sixteen or seventeen yean since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; t just began to move in — glittering like the morning star full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh... | |
 | 1844 - 778 pages
...quotaBURKE. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her juat above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...sixteen or seVenteen-years/ since I saw the Queen of Fra'nce, then the daup'hiness, at Versai'lles ; and surely never ligh'ted on this o'rb (which sh'e...had just begun to move i'n, — glit'tering like the morning-sta'r ; full of life, and sple'ndour, and jo'y. Oh' ! wha'ta revolu'tion ! — and what a heart... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1846 - 606 pages
...writing of these words, I come unexpectedly to the quotation from Burke, to which they refer : — " And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." The... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...celebrated comparison of the Queen of France, though going to the verge of chaste style, hardly passes it ' And, surely, never lighted on this orb, which she...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy,'"10... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in; glittering like the morning star; full of life, and splendor, and joy. O, what... | |
 | Louis Adolphe Thiers - France - 1845 - 470 pages
...Revolution. E. * " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Vei sailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the ein vated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour,... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - Education - 1845 - 188 pages
...France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles: and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision ! I saw...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Little... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - American essays - 1845 - 404 pages
...France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. Oh !... | |
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