 | Chilton Williamson - Conservatism - 2004 - 360 pages
...institutions that shaped it, is apparent also in the passionate rhetoric that warms and directs his prose: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she barely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. . . . Oh! what a revolution! and what a heart must... | |
 | Carolly Erickson - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 396 pages
...reminiscence of her. "Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch," Burke wrote, "a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy."... | |
 | Richard W. Barber - History - 2005 - 220 pages
...Edmund Burke could evoke the past glories of chivalry in Reflections, on the Revolution in France: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy . . . Little did I dream that I should have lived to see disasters fallen upon her... | |
 | Hansjörg Bay, Kai Merten - Cultural awareness - 2006 - 674 pages
...einen Ursprung, der gleichwohl in der Restitution Burkes alle Züge des Nachträglichen trägt. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, füll of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I... | |
 | Mary Mostert - Political Science - 2005 - 270 pages
...with Tyranny!) Edmund Burke, an Irish born statesman and philosopher wrote of her execution: 3" "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like the morning star full of life and splendor and joy. 0, what... | |
 | Robert Gibson - History - 2004 - 336 pages
...evocation of Marie-Antoinette: It is now 16 or 17 years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphine at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb,...glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy. Oh! What a revolution! And what a heart I must have to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | Lawrence E. Cahoone - History - 2010 - 248 pages
...October 6, 1789, when a Parisian mob marched to Versailles and took the king and queen into custody. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.... [Ljittle did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of... | |
 | Susan Maslan - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 304 pages
...79. 52. Edmund Burke offers the best-known admiring Account, of Marie- Antoinette as spectacle: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw... | |
 | Matthew S. Buckley - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 222 pages
...Burke's aesthetic representation of the Revolution. "It is now sixteen or seventeen years," he muses, "since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness,...the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...limbs and mutilated carcasses. Thence they were conducted into the capital of their kingdom. . . . 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 have,... | |
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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... 
