 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...save herself from the last disgrace ; and that, if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. It No. 2Э. Apbut it was a people in beggary ; it was...together, these creatures of sufferance, whose very splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...villany, and whoever may partake of the plunder. VII. APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE.—Burke. SIR, 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... | |
 | Science - 1836 - 432 pages
...figure is a portrait of the fascinating Queen herself, sculptured at the very time when, as Burke says " never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delighftul vision." This, like the former statue, is devoid of drapery. The position of the body, and... | |
 | Education - 1837 - 186 pages
...young man to whom I have awarded the first place, explained promptly and accurately the expressions ' surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision,'' ' decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,' ' enthusiastic, distant,... | |
 | Fashion - 346 pages
...writers. Speaking of Marie Antoinette, this elegant author says, ' Surely never lighted on this orh, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.' By the syren voice of such a being, were the better feelings of the unfortunate... | |
 | United States - 1850 - 616 pages
...seamed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above tho horizon, decorating and cheering ths elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering...morning star; full, of life, and splendor, and joy." This brilliant being, the admired of all beholders — possessed of power, a throne, youth — all... | |
 | Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers - 1838 - 448 pages
...fashions were as ridiculous as the arts were misplaced." — Alison's French Revolution. E. •}, " 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... | |
 | Adolphe Thiers - France - 1838 - 454 pages
...fashions were as ridiculous as the arts were misplaced." — Alison's French Revolution. E. f " 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 546 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...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star ; full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - France - 1839 - 476 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 hardly...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy."f All his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples of the abuse... | |
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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... 
