 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
 | 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 - 314 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 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... | |
 | Stephen Regan - 2004 - 628 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. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I... | |
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