 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pages
...years since I saw the Oueen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more...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 a revolution... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...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...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the eleyated sphere she just began to moves in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1827 - 698 pages
...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...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, ' and joy.' — (Ibid.) AH his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...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,...just above " the horizon, decorating and cheering the ele" vated sphere she just began to move in — glit" tering like the morning star, full of life, and... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...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 cheering the elc" vated sphere she just... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...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...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...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...-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... | |
 | 1820 - 524 pages
...her shoulders, and bear her aloft upon the ambient ether. It is thus that for some time we see her " glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." And then anon, " oh, what a revolution !" a fatal passion seizes her ; the graces and the muses gradually... | |
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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. 
