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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... "
Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain ... - Page 77
by Edmund Burke - 1814 - 246 pages
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The Life of Edmund Burke: Comprehending and Impartial Account of ..., Volume 2

Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pages
...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...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning * State Trials, vol. ii. p. 360, 363. star, .full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what...
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The Port Folio, Volume 4

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...decorating and cheering the eleyated sphere she just began to moves in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution! and what heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! I thought ten thousand...
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The Port Folio, Volume 2

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 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...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 46

1827 - 698 pages
...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...she just began to move in — ' glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, ' and joy.' — (Ibid.) AH his writings, but especially...
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Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of ..., Volume 1

Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...sphere she just began to move in — glit" tering like the morning star, full of life, and " splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! ** And what an heart...to contemplate " without emotion that elevation and fall ! — " Little did I dream, that when she added titles " of veneration to those of enthusiastic,...
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Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta ... queen of France and Navarre, tr. by R.C. Dallas

Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...she just began to move in—glit" tering like the morning star, full of life, and " splendour, arid joy. Oh ! what a revolution! " And what an heart must...to contemplate " without emotion that elevation and fall!—- " Little did I dream, that when she added titles H '2 " of veneration to those of enthusiastic,...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...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 tomove in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a...
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American Lady's Preceptor: A Compilation of Observations, Essays, and ...

Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...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...she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what a heart must I...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...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 had just began to move in,— —glittering like the morning star ; full of life, and splendor, and...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 82, Part 1; Volume 111

Early English newspapers - 1812 - 778 pages
...and surely never alighted on this orb, which site 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 in, — if littering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." - - " tittle did I dream...
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