 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pages
...pitch by the misfortunes of its object. ' It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Oueen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...\ ' It is now sixteen or Seventeen years since I saw the Oueen of France, then the Dan^>* phiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb,...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...Burke's use of this figure in his celebrated description of the queen of France is of a similar nature: " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the eleyated sphere she just began to moves... | |
 | 1827 - 698 pages
...celebrated comparison of the Queen of France, though going to the verge of chaste style, hardly passes it. ' 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 cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...within it which possesses mine : " It is now," said the immortal Burke, in 1790, "sixteen or eighteen years since I saw the " Queen of France, then the...hardly seemed to touch, a " more delightful vision — I saw her just above " the horizon, decorating and cheering the ele" vated sphere she just began... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...within it which possesses mine : " It is now," said the immortal Burke, in 1790, "sixteen or eighteen years since I saw the " Queen of France, then the...which she hardly seemed to touch, a " more delightful vision—I saw her just above " the horizon, decorating and cheering the elc" vated sphere she just... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 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...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began tomove... | |
 | Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...deposited, and consumed in the same manner. Mr. Burke's animated description of the late Queen . of France. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...conquer —or die ! . SECTION II. Eulogium of Antoinette, the late Queen of France. IT is now sixteen-or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the -horizon,. decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just began... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...will save herself from the hst 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 Queen of France, then the Uauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch,... | |
| |
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. 
