 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...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 queen of France, then...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. OF EDMUND BURKE. 149 I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere... | |
 | Louis Adolphe Thiers - France - 1845 - 470 pages
...Revolution. E. * " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Vei sailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the ein vated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour,... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - Education - 1845 - 188 pages
...Columbia's great ally!" And thus the great English orator of that day describes her: " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then...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... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - American essays - 1845 - 404 pages
...extract, as a characteristic specimen, both of his written and spoken style. "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then...; 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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...Antoinette, Queen of France. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, thgn the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...read her history without sorrow." MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF LOUIS XVIII. BtJHKE. 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 splendor, and joy. Oh... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1846 - 598 pages
...unexpectedly to the quotation from Burke, to which they refer : — " And surely never lighted on Ms orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and juy." The... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...and subjects of study for the Junior and Senior classes. QUEEN ANTOINETTE. It is now || sixteen or seventeen years, \ since I saw the Queen of France,...|| then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ;\ and surely || n ever lighted on this orb , which she hardly || seemed to touch, a more delight fu 1 vision. I... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 pages
...read her history without sorrow." MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OP LOUIS XVI. 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 splendor, and joy. Oh... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...throughout the universe. LESSON XXXVIII. 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. Oh... | |
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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. 
