 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...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2761827Full view - About this book
 | Norma Thompson - 2008 - 256 pages
...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...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! What a revolution!" (66). With this exclamation, Burke's letter shifts from... | |
 | Richard J. Finneran - 2001 - 314 pages
...13,588 [14], 4r) Burke, referring to Marie Antoinette in Reflections on the French Revolution, states: 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! What a revolution! And what a heart must 1 have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation... | |
 | Julia Swindells - 2001 - 234 pages
...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...to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just ahove the hoti2on, decorating and cheeting the elevated sphere she just hegan to move in—glitteting... | |
 | David Kuchta - 2002 - 313 pages
...attention from his contemporaries, was his lament for the tragic, fallen beauty of Marie Antoinette: surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! . . . But the age of chivalry... | |
 | Stephen K. White - 2002 - 134 pages
...histrionics of Burke's description of that event.22 He casts her almost as an unearthly vision: There "surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision." This image is juxtaposed to ones of "unutterable abominations" and "mutilated carcasses" as the king... | |
 | Munro Price - 2004 - 472 pages
...is now fifteen or sixteen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy-14 Marie Antoinette's intellectual capacities have received even rougher treatment from historians... | |
 | Bharat Tandon - 2003 - 320 pages
...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...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy.'4 When speaking in public, however, Burke was capable... | |
 | Ian Donnachie, Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin - 2003 - 324 pages
...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...she 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... | |
 | Luke Gibbons - 2003 - 326 pages
...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 . . . Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation... | |
 | George Walker - 2004 - 396 pages
...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...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 I... | |
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