 | Catharine Esther Beecher - Education - 1845 - 188 pages
...Gallia's King! Columbia's great ally!" And thus the great English orator of that day describes her: " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...Versailles: and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision ! I saw her, just above the horizon, decorating... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...Antoinette, Queen of France. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, thgn the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...and love, or will read her history without sorrow." MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF LOUIS XVIII. BtJHKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate, without emotion,... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1846 - 598 pages
...unexpectedly to the quotation from Burke, to which they refer : — " And surely never lighted on Ms orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and juy." The sentence is truly harmonious, and the images seem to be snatched hastily from the fragments... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...to describe the lessons and subjects of study for the Junior and Senior classes. QUEEN ANTOINETTE. It is now || sixteen or seventeen years, \ since I...|| then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ;\ and surely || n ever lighted on this orb , which she hardly || seemed to touch, a more delight fu 1 vision. I... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...should resound throughout the universe. LESSON XXXVIII. Apostrophe to the Queen of France. — BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...morning star; full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 pages
...admiration and love, or will read her history without sorrow." MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OP LOUIS XVI. BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate, without emotion,... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF LOUIS XVI. BOHKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of Prance, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must 1 have to contemplate, without emotion,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 348 pages
...God, she had a strange BURKE. It is now sixteen, or seventeen years, since I saw the Queen of France at Versailles ; and surely, never lighted on this...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Ah, what a revolution ! and what a heart must I... | |
| |
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... 
