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... Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Page 47edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
| Francis Kinloch - France - 1819 - 346 pages
...curiosity, to see the royal family, and particularly the queen, who was then, as Mr. Burke describes her, just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she was beginning to move in; a sad change has taken place; the pomp of royalty is fled, and all is solitary... | |
| English literature - 1836 - 496 pages
...of France, then Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her...she just began to move in — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, splendour, and joy. Oh, what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have,... | |
| Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 352 pages
...Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles : and surely never lighted on this orb, which it hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision....decorating and cheering the elevated sphere, she just hegantomove in: glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy. Oh ! what a revolution!... | |
| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must... | |
| Edmund Henry Barker - Authorship - 1828 - 588 pages
...passes it : ' And surely never lighted on this orb, which she ' hardly seemed to touch, a more delighful vision. ' I saw her just above the horizon, decorating...she just began to ' move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of ' life, and splendour, and joy.' (Ibid.) All his writings, but especially his... | |
| 1830 - 408 pages
...seventeen years," he observes,* " 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 had just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life and splendour, and joy. Oh!... | |
| James Hardiman - English poetry - 1831 - 484 pages
...reader of Edmund Burke's* celebrated description of the Queen of the unfortunate Lewis XVI. of France, " Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like Ihe morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful passage, the force of early impressions... | |
| Portuguêz - 1833 - 374 pages
...herdeira de uma poderosa monarchia, cortada * " I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cbeering the elevated sphere, she just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life, of -splundor, and joy. — BURKE L a logo nos primeiros tempos do seu hymeneu... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...lighted on the orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above me dly, shipped to them in an African vessel, which U refused an t-ntry into the p — glitten«; like the morning star; full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution... | |
| Education - 1837 - 186 pages
...' surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision,'' ' decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,' ' enthusiastic, distant, respectful love,' ' cavaliers,' ' chivalry,' ' sophisters economists, and... | |
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