 | British prose literature - 1821 - 362 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...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... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pages
...since I saw the Queen of France, then the Daupluness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted upon this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and of joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 496 pages
...of France, then Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her...she just began to move in — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, splendour, and joy. Oh, what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 pages
...lighted on this orb, which it hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just ahove the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated...glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must I have to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 352 pages
...j since it touches one of the finest chords of the heart,—" It is now sixteen years," said he, " since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness,...Versailles : and surely never lighted on this orb, which it hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...urge me rather to save the man, than to preserve his brazen slippers as the monuments of his folly. 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 478 pages
...Versailles, like a bright seraphic vision, ' cheering and decorating the elevated sphere she was destined to move in — glittering like the morning star — full of life, and splendor, and joy.' / Our learned brethren of the London Quarterly, in their review of the work before us, asserted, that... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...protect the villany, and whoever may partake of the plunder. APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. BURKE. IT is now, sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - Authorship - 1828 - 588 pages
...passes it : ' And surely never lighted on this orb, which she ' hardly seemed to touch, a more delighful vision. ' I saw her just above the horizon, decorating...she just began to ' move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of ' life, and splendour, and joy.' (Ibid.) All his writings, but especially his... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...the patrimony of the fame of my honourable friend, and not of Cicero. ANTOINETTA, QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphincss, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch,... | |
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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... 
