 | Catharine Esther Beecher - Education - 1845 - 188 pages
...Gallia's King! Columbia's great ally!" And thus the great English orator of that day describes her: " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...Versailles: and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision ! I saw her, just above the horizon, decorating... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - American essays - 1845 - 404 pages
...PITT, COMPARED WITH extract, as a characteristic specimen, both of his written and spoken style. "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...as the Duke of Bedford would have it, from an unworthy parent. Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, thgn the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...love, or will read her history without sorrow." MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF LOUIS XVIII. BtJHKE. 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... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1846 - 598 pages
...unexpectedly to the quotation from Burke, to which they refer : — " And surely never lighted on Ms orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and juy." The sentence is truly harmonious, and the images seem to be snatched hastily from... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...describe the lessons and subjects of study for the Junior and Senior classes. QUEEN ANTOINETTE. It is now || sixteen or seventeen years, \ since I saw...|| then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ;\ and surely || n ever lighted on this orb , which she hardly || seemed to touch, a more delight fu 1 vision. I... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 pages
...and love, or will read her history without sorrow." MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OP LOUIS XVI. BURKE. 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... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...should resound throughout the universe. LESSON XXXVIII. 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 emotion... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF LOUIS XVI. BOHKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of Prance, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never...morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must 1 have to contemplate, without emotion, that elevation... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...patron of Gluck, and brought his music into fashion. She won the ardent admiration of Burke, who wrote: "Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizjn, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the... | |
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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... 
