 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
 | Jonathan Barber - 1830 - 364 pages
...the foregoing tables ; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orb'd moon shone with uncommon splendor. 'Till that a capable... | |
 | 1832
...being who stole me from myself ! Burke's rapture, however, on the queen of France, — ' surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision, — 'would have been quite inapplicable, for touch it she did, and stood firm on it with the help of... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 488 pages
...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...like the morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful passage, the force of early impressions is clearly shown. Beauty in our native lyrics,... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 484 pages
...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...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like Ihe morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful passage, the force of early impressions... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 356 pages
...the foregoing tables; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orVd moon shone with uncommon splendor. 'Till that a capable... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 360 pages
...the foregoing tables ; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orUd moon shone with uncommon splendor. Till that a capable... | |
 | Portuguêz - 1833 - 374 pages
...herdeira de uma poderosa monarchia, cortada * " I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cbeering the elevated sphere, she just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life, of -splundor, and joy. — BURKE L a logo nos primeiros tempos do seu hymeneu... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834
...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
...now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; r months together, these creatures of sufferance, whose very Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 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!—and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
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