 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...iron hand of oppression, and the insolent spurn of contempt. MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in—glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution... | |
 | John Cumming - Bible - 1851 - 592 pages
...apostrophe of Burke : "It is now sixteen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness of Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb,...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 762 pages
...contempt. [ifaru Antoinette, Queen of France.'] [Tram ' Reflections on the Revolution in France.'] It -footed ceerned to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...despair. Let us at least make one effort — and if we must fall, let us fall like THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ;l and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.... | |
 | David Bromwich - Literary Collections - 1999 - 484 pages
...interested historian. Such was the example of Marie Antoinette as Burke presented her in the Reflections. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution!... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...beheading of Queen Marie Antoinette, Burke became an outspoken critic of the excesses of the Revolution. 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 splendor and joy. O, what... | |
 | Srinivas Aravamudan - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 444 pages
...full of life and splendor and joy." With a delicate pun that conflates earth and eye, Burke avers, "surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision" (8:126).72 Word for word, this image is a reversal of the horror felt by Cheselden's boy at the sight... | |
 | Steve Martinot - Literary Criticism & Collections - 2001 - 382 pages
...of France ("then the dauphiness"), as she "lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch": I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. . . . Little did I dream . . . that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against... | |
 | Joseph O'Neill - 2000 - 272 pages
...France, then the Dauphiness of Versailles, and surely, never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her...horizon decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had begun to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy—Oh what... | |
 | Norma Thompson - Political Science - 2008 - 256 pages
...exists to resituate a people, once the historical moment has passed. His famous passage begins thus: "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! What a revolution!" (66). With this exclamation, Burke's letter shifts from Marie Antoinette to... | |
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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... 
