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
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - 2006 - 520 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1963 - 585 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 have,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 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... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - 2006 - 410 pages
...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... | |
 | Stephen Gill - 2006 - 417 pages
...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... | |
 | Colin Bingham - 2006 - 428 pages
...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... | |
 | Jane Hodson - 2007 - 244 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...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Inchbald - 2007 - 454 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! And what a heart must I have, to contemplate... | |
 | Daniel I. O'Neill - 2010 - 306 pages
...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... | |
 | David Avrom Bell - 2007 - 444 pages
...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... | |
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