...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 have,...

...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...

...will live as long as the English language. It was in the spring of 1774 that it seemed to him that "surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in—glittering like the morningstar, full of life, and splendor, and joy." No one could be less like...

...his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). Burke lamented the situation of the Queen, 'once glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy', now with 'disasters fallen upon her'.30 Wordsworth's first response had been to describe the passage...

...walking, grace itself when she moves." Burke's ecstasy is famous: "I saw her just above the horizon, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." But for every one who remembers that passage, at least a hundred believe she said, "Then let them eat...

...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...sphere 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...

...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! And what a heart must I have, to contemplate...

...still the young dauphiness, when he saw her on his only trip to France, in 1773. "Surely," he wrote, "never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy" (8:126). The hardheaded point of this most romantic...

...elegiac reverie: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France ... at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision ... I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened...

...now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, 'then the Dauphiness, at Yersallies ; 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...