 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 750 pages
...contempt. [Marie Antoinette, Queen of France.'] [From ' Reflection» on the Revolution in France.'] It all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, b dauphmesa, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch,... | |
 | 1844 - 778 pages
...unfortunate queen of France, selected from the Essay on the French Revolution; and the quotaBURKE. " 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... | |
 | 1844
...association of poetry with rhetoric is, of course, more intimate and denned ; COPLESTON AND KEBLE. 249 "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which slie hardly seemed to touch, a more (Ipliirhtful... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...pardon something to the spirit of liberty. LESSON CLXVII. Apostrophe to the Queen of France. BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...morning star; full of life, and splendor, and joy. O, what a^ revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 856 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...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy,'"10 — Pp. 175 — 180. <*•'• " It is another characteristic of this great... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1846 - 606 pages
...writing of these words, I come unexpectedly to the quotation from Burke, to which they refer : — " And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." The sentence is truly harmonious, and the images seem to be snatched hastily from... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...collec'ted. EULOGIUM ON MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seVenteen-years/ since I saw the Queen of Fra'nce, then the daup'hiness,...de'corating and che'ering the elevated sph'ere/ she had just begun to move i'n, — glit'tering like the morning-sta'r ; full of life, and sple'ndour,... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 426 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...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. OF EDMUND BURKE. 149 I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1845
...celebrated comparison of the Queeu of France, though going to the verge of chaste style, hardly passes it. " And surely, never lighted' on this orb, which she...and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to imove in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour 'and joy." J All his* writings,... | |
 | Louis Adolphe Thiers - France - 1845 - 470 pages
...Revolution. E. * " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Vei sailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the ein vated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour,... | |
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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... 
