 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the duuphincss, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb....hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. 1 saw her just uhuve I he horizon, decorating nnd cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | James Spear Loring - Boston (Mass.) - 1852 - 762 pages
...greatest of orators described in a sister potentate, as she appeared to him, ' cheering and decorating the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy.' O ! may no sinister fortune darken this splendid vision, as its precursor was darkened... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1853 - 972 pages
...save herself from the last disgrace ; and that, if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...lighted on this orb. which she hardly seemed to touch, :i more delightful vision. 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - History - 1997 - 476 pages
...will save herself from the last disgrace, and that if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I... | |
 | Hilda L. Smith - History - 1998 - 428 pages
...24 Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, 30. 25 Burke recounts his famous vision thus: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...glittering like the morning star full of life and splendor and joy. (Reflections, ed. JGA Pocock [Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1987], 66) In the... | |
 | Marilyn Morris - History - 1998 - 252 pages
...apostrophe to Marie Antoinette, which lies at the center of the work, is rich in its emotional resonances: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution!... | |
 | Mandy Merck - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 252 pages
...Burke in 1790 toward that adornment to the feudal corruption of the French Bourbons, Marie Antoinette: 'Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy.'... | |
 | David Bromwich - Literary Collections - 1999 - 484 pages
...interested historian. Such was the example of Marie Antoinette as Burke presented her in the Reflections. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution!... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...beheading of Queen Marie Antoinette, Burke became an outspoken critic of the excesses of the Revolution. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like the morning star full of life and splendor and joy. O, what... | |
 | Steve Martinot - Literary Criticism & Collections - 2001 - 382 pages
...of France ("then the dauphiness"), as she "lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch": I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. . . . Little did I dream . . . that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp... | |
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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... 
