 | Julia Swindells - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 234 pages
...theatticality and the trope of sensibility pervade his conceptuali2ation of histotical and political events: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just ahove the hoti2on, decorating and cheeting the elevated sphere she just hegan to move in—glitteting... | |
 | Richard J. Finneran - 2001 - 314 pages
...13,588 [14], 4r) Burke, referring to Marie Antoinette in Reflections on the French Revolution, states: 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! What a revolution! And what a heart must 1 have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | David Kuchta - History - 2002 - 314 pages
...attention from his contemporaries, was his lament for the tragic, fallen beauty of Marie Antoinette: 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! . . . But the age of chivalry... | |
 | Stephen K. White - Philosophy - 2002 - 134 pages
...histrionics of Burke's description of that event.22 He casts her almost as an unearthly vision: There "surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision." This image is juxtaposed to ones of "unutterable abominations" and "mutilated carcasses" as the king... | |
 | Munro Price - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 472 pages
...her holding court as a young bride, in the days of glory before 1789: It is now fifteen or sixteen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness,...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy-14 Marie Antoinette's intellectual capacities have received even rougher treatment... | |
 | Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 324 pages
...Revolution Sourcebook, London, Arnold, 1999, p. 113. 79 Edmund Burke on the French Revolution, 1790 It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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... | |
 | Bharat Tandon - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 320 pages
...of an ordered or disordered universe. One famous example is Burke's memory of Marie Antoinette: 'It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy.'4 When speaking in public, however, Burke was capable... | |
 | Luke Gibbons - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 326 pages
...Burkes famous lament over the death of chivalry in the desecrated bedchamber of Marie Antoinette: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision . . . Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation... | |
 | George Walker - Fiction - 2004 - 396 pages
...famous triumph, lodged in one of the old palaces of Paris, now converted into a Bastile for kings.... It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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 I... | |
 | Stephen Regan - Literary Collections - 2004 - 628 pages
...WRITINGS AND SPEECHES EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797) from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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... | |
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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... 
