 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
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - Biography of Europe - 1877 - 378 pages
...he, " 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, and full of life and splendour and joy.... | |
 | Science - 1877 - 748 pages
...no deeper reverence. Even the Queen of France, who BO intoxicated the imagination of Burke when he saw her, "just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she 1 HMdreth's "History of the United States," vol. II., Second Serlei, p. 41$. " Parton'a "Life of Thomas... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1878 - 400 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...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." 'Lower pitch' and 'slower time? 'Long quantity]... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 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...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morningstar, full of life and splendor and joy." (Burke.) JOYOUS AND NOBLE IDEAS. When this joyous... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1878 - 412 pages
...years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted oh this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." ' Lotver pitch ' and ' slower time.' ' Long quantity,'... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1878 - 832 pages
...no deeper reverence. Even the Queen of France, who so intoxicated the imagination of Burke when he saw her, ' just above the horizon, decorating and...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star full of life and splendor and joy,' failed to dazzle the Virginian Democrat. In the summer... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 390 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... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - Fiction - 1984 - 280 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...sphere 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... | |
 | James Boyd White - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1985 - 400 pages
...Barfield's Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning (London: Faber & Faber, 1952). 17. This is Marie Antoinette: I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...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... | |
 | Mary Poovey - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 309 pages
...of the man recedes behind an obscuring rhetorical flourish — much like Burke's own. Here is Burke: "I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy."19 And here is Wollstonecraft: 1 could almost fancy... | |
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