 | 1830 - 408 Seiten
...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,...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life and splendour,... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 484 Seiten
...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...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like Ihe morning star, full of life and splendour."... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 488 Seiten
...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...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."... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 Seiten
...since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphin»*, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on the — but just as reasonable, as many of the serious wishes of very me horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, — glitten«; like... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 Seiten
...disgrace ; and that, if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen ple in beggary ; it was a nation which stretched out...together, these creatures of sufferance, whose very elevated sphere she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning star ; full of life, and... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 Seiten
...of the plunder. VII. APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE.—Burke. SIR, it is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness,...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... | |
 | Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers - 1838 - 448 Seiten
...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,...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,... | |
 | Adolphe Thiers - 1838 - 454 Seiten
...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,...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,... | |
 | 346 Seiten
...writers. Speaking of Marie Antoinette, this elegant author says, ' Surely never lighted on this orh, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...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,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 476 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
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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... 
