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
| Elocution - 1854 - 576 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...to move in, — glittering like the morning star, 'ull of life, and splendor, and joy. O ! what a revolution ! and what a heart mu^t I have, to contemplate... | |
| Peter Burke - Philosophy - 1854 - 346 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...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!... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 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 had just begun to move in, — glittering like the morning star ; full of life, and splendour, and... | |
| American essays - 1873 - 794 pages
..." 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 had just begun to move in, — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy.... | |
| Rowland Gibson Hazard - Essays - 1857 - 364 pages
...that he felt as if he were all mind, and mind were all refinement and ecstacy. The next sentence — " I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, full of life, and splendor, and joy/7 naturally suggests the orb of day, decorating with its beams... | |
| Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...sixteen or seventeen years since 4 I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...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!... | |
| John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 432 pages
...Reflections: " It is now sixteen 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 was just beginning to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and... | |
| John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1861 - 650 pages
...still worthy of the eulogium of Burke, as he saw her, years before, at Versailles; when he wrote, . " Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...sphere she Just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." " Marie Antoinette," says madame le Brun, who... | |
| Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 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...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!... | |
| Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1862 - 564 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...to move in, — glittering like the morning star, rull of life, and splendor, and joy. 0 ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate... | |
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