 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...that were borne out by subsequent events in France. FROM Reflections on the Revolution in France 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... | |
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - English literature - 2006 - 520 pages
...fiiJilWfF^ Hastings) ' tflR Hffi tt ° • r (Warren ' ^ Marie Antoinette fi*J— a/ft-fti 381 Ji ' i 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... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 410 pages
...will live as long as the English language. It was in the spring of 1774 that it seemed to him that "surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in—glittering like the morningstar, full of life, and splendor, and joy." No one could be less like... | |
 | Jane Hodson - History - 2007 - 244 pages
...Discourse on the Love of our Country as being in part a celebration of her downfall (see also p. 74): It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...sphere 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Inchbald - Fiction - 2007 - 454 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...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! And what a heart must I have, to contemplate... | |
 | Daniel I. O'Neill - Biography & Autobiography - 2010 - 306 pages
...still the young dauphiness, when he saw her on his only trip to France, in 1773. "Surely," he wrote, "never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy" (8:126). The hardheaded point of this most romantic... | |
 | Brian McIlroy - History - 2007 - 302 pages
...rotememorized recitation of the opening of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution: "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles..." (Friel 1965: 23 and passim). Instead of representing two sides to Gar, the Public and Private balance... | |
 | David Avrom Bell - Europe - 2007 - 444 pages
...the morning in horrifying, gory detail. And then he will drift into a haunting, elegiac reverie: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France ... at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful... | |
 | Denis Donoghue - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2008 - 207 pages
...of the Reflections on the Revolution in France that included a description of Marie Antoinette—"I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution!... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 590 pages
...save herself from the last disgrace ; and that, if she must fall, she will fall by BO ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Yersallies ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful... | |
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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... 
