 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
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 548 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 spleudor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a>\ heart must... | |
 | Isabel Goldsmid - 1839 - 336 pages
...eye, "just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the sphere" in which she was about to move ; "glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." I too, "thought that ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 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...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 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...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy... | |
 | William Smyth - 1840 - 446 pages
...to be the idol of the court of a great monarch, a model of elegance and grace : " never lighted upon this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision." How, indeed, she deported herself at all times, in the gay hours of her prosperity, it may now be impossible... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 738 pages
...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 "...I " saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheer" ing the elevated sphere she just began to move in, " glittering like the morning star, full... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 702 pages
...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 "...I " saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheer" ing the elevated sphere she just began to move in, " glittering like the morning star, full... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 408 pages
...or seventeen years', | since I saw the queen of France, | then the dauphiness, | at Versailles' ; | and surely, never lighted on this , orb, | (which...more delightful vis.ion. | I saw her just above the horrzon, | decorating, and cheering the elevated sphere , | she just began to move, in — glittering... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 457 pages
...the French Revolution, to the young queen, afterwards beheaded — " Just risen above the horizon, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." 513. See 11. xiv. 347.— (T.) 520. Milton writes here in classical language. The evening star was... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1842 - 360 pages
...the Queen of France, though going to the verge of chaste style, hardly passes it. " And surely.never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch,...morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy."* All his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples of the abuse of this style, in... | |
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