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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... "
Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Page 47
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Letters from Geneva and France: Written During a Residence of ..., Volume 2

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...
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The Lady's Magazine and Museum of the Belles-lettres, Fine Arts ..., Volume 8

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,...
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On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With ..., Volume 1

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!...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

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...
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I. The Claims of Sir Philip Francis, K. B., to the Authorship of Junius's ...

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...
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The Monthly Gazette of Health, Volume 11

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!...
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Irish minstrelsy, or Bardic remains of Ireland; with Engl ..., Volume 1

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...
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Russell de Albuquerque, cônto moral

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...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

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...
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Report of the General Committee of Public Instruction of the Presidency of ...

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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