 | English literature - 1836 - 496 pages
...her charms : — " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I first saw the Queen 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 just above the horizon, decorating and... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...save the man, than to preserve his brazen slippers as the monuments of his folly. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...whoever may partake of the plunder. APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. BURKE. IT is now, sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in: — glittering, like the morning star; full of life, and splendour, and joy.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...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,...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - Authorship - 1828 - 588 pages
...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 and ' cheering the elevated sphere she just began to ' move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of ' life, and splendour, and joy.'... | |
 | 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,...she had just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like Ihe morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful... | |
 | 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...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful... | |
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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. 
