 | 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... | |
 | Cornelia D. J. Pearsall - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 408 pages
...of the last time that he saw Marie Antoinette, from his 1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France ("I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she moved in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy") as a staple... | |
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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... 
