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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... "
Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring ... - Page 99
by Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 228 pages
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Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of ..., Volume 2

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1839 - 434 pages
...celebrated comparison of the Queen of France, though going to the verge of chaste style, hardly passes it. "And surely, never lighted on this orb, which she...her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering Hie elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and...
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A memoir of the political life of ... Edmund Burke

George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...rank and race, and becoming the offspring of a Sovereign distinguished for her piety and courage. " 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 splendour, and joy...
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A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund ..., Volume 2

George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...rank and race, and becoming the offspring of a Sovereign distinguished for her piety and courage. " 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 splendour, and joy...
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The History of England: From the Accession to the Decease of King ..., Volume 4

John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 702 pages
...and the daily insults they were doomed to undergo, and burst into an impassioned exclamation. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...I " saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheer" ing the elevated sphere she just began to move in, " glittering like the morning star, full...
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The History of England: From the Accession to the Decease of King ..., Volume 4

John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 738 pages
...and the daily insults they were doomed to undergo, and burst into an impassioned exclamation. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...I " saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheer" ing the elevated sphere she just began to move in, " glittering like the morning star, full...
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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...And laid my hand upon thy mane' — | as I do here,. | APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. (BURKE.) It is now sixteen, or seventeen years', | since I saw...more delightful vis.ion. | I saw her just above the horrzon, | decorating, and cheering the elevated sphere , | she just began to move, in — glittering...
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Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of ..., Volume 1

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1842 - 360 pages
...the Queen of France, though going to the verge of chaste style, hardly passes it. " And surely.never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch,...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy."* All his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples of the abuse...
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Tales and Souvenirs of a Residence in Europe

Judith Page Walker Rives - Europe - 1842 - 328 pages
...being safe "beneath the shadow of his wing." SURPRISES. ' Behold a man much wronged." COM. OF ERRORS. " I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy." BURKE. UNCONSCIOUS of the events that were occurring at Lansdale, Medwyn, at the...
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History of Our Own Times, Volume 1

Thomas Campbell, Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 468 pages
...on perusing such details, is not reminded of the impassioned outburst of the eloquent Burke : " 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 splendour, and joy....
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...of France.} [From • R*ueotioni on the Revolution In France.'] It ie now sixteen or seventeen yean so c".0c".`J!. splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion...
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