 | 1836 - 496 strani
...of France, then Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her...she just began to move in — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, splendour, and joy. Oh, what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 352 strani
...Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles : and surely never lighted on this orb, which it hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision....decorating and cheering the elevated sphere, she just hegantomove in: glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy. Oh ! what a revolution!... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 strani
...as the monuments of his folly. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 strani
...THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. BURKE. IT is now, sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely, never...splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! — and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 strani
...FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphincss, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb,...splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall ! Little did I dream,... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - 588 strani
...passes it : ' And surely never lighted on this orb, which she ' hardly seemed to touch, a more delighful vision. ' I saw her just above the horizon, decorating...she just began to ' move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of ' life, and splendour, and joy.' (Ibid.) All his writings, but especially his... | |
 | 1830 - 408 strani
...beheld in her. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years," he observes,* " since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never...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 - 1830 - 364 strani
...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... | |
 | 1832 - 600 strani
...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... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 488 strani
...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...like the morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful passage, the force of early impressions is clearly shown. Beauty in our native lyrics,... | |
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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... 
