 | 1830 - 408 pages
...strictly applicable to what I beheld in her. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years," he observes,* " since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness,...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life and splendour, and joy. Oh!... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1830 - 364 pages
...the foregoing tables ; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orb'd moon shone with uncommon splendor. 'Till that a capable... | |
 | Asia - 1832 - 600 pages
...being who stole me from myself ! Burke's rapture, however, on the queen of France, — ' surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision, — 'would have been quite inapplicable, for touch it she did, and stood firm on it with the help of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...desolation, I Marie Antoinette, Queen of fflance. — fflom ' Reflections on the Revolution in France.* It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphlneae, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which ehe hardly seemed to touch,... | |
 | James Hardiman - Ballads, Irish - 1831 - 488 pages
...reader of Edmund Burke's* celebrated description of the Queen of the unfortunate Lewis XVI. of France, " Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful passage, the force of early impressions is clearly shown. Beauty in our... | |
 | James Hardiman - English poetry - 1831 - 484 pages
...reader of Edmund Burke's* celebrated description of the Queen of the unfortunate Lewis XVI. of France, " Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like Ihe morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful passage, the force of early impressions... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1832 - 360 pages
...the foregoing tables ; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orUd moon shone with uncommon splendor. Till that a capable... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1832 - 356 pages
...the foregoing tables; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orVd moon shone with uncommon splendor. 'Till that a capable... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1834 - 188 pages
...to his BED-CHAMBER, WHERE, (it is recorded,) he SLEPT QUIETLY for about a quarter of an hour.' ' It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I SAW the...QUEEN of FRANCE, (then the Dauphiness) at VERSAILLES.' ' He REFUSED, (saying,) NO, NO, THAT will NOT HELP me.' 'The MISERABLE INHABITANTS, (flyingfrom their... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...save herself from the last disgrace ; ini that, if she must fall, she will fall by no igaobfe hand. It y distance will continue. " Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, and mak dauphin»*, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on the 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... 
