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" 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 276
1827
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The clergy of the French revolution, the funeral oration on the rev. R.C. de ...

Joseph Rathborne - 1842 - 90 pages
...and the prosperity of our country ; " decorating and cheering the elevated sphere in which she moves, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." For our venerable brother had often combated, even to the 12 utmost peril, both by his learned pen...
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History of Our Own Times, Volume 1

Thomas Campbell, Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 468 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....
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The Opinions of Sir Robert Peel: Expressed in Parliament and in Public

Robert Peel - 1843 - 504 pages
...that orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a lovelier vision. I saw her just above the horizon, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour and joy." This, I think, with justice and without exaggeration, may fairly be applied to the present Queen of...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphmesa, at Versailles ; ears, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your...pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...now sixteen or seventeen yean since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; t Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation...
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 29

1844 - 778 pages
...quotaBURKE. " 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 saw her juat above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering...
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Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and ..., Volumes 1-2

Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...or rustic villages — No ! we will have her to exalt her mitred front in courts and parliaments.' * But if these should seem so temperate as hardly to...the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy,'"10 — Pp. 175 — 180. <*•'• " It is another characteristic of this great writer, that the...
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Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 4

Douglas Jerrold - 1846 - 606 pages
...writing of these words, I come unexpectedly to the quotation from Burke, to which they refer : — " And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." The sentence is truly harmonious, and the images seem to be snatched hastily from the fragments of...
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Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of ..., Volumes 1-2

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1845 - 510 pages
...these should seem so temperate as hardly to be separate figures, the celebrated comparison of the Queeu of France, though going to the verge of chaste style,...and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to imove in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour 'and joy." J All his* writings,...
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The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ...

William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 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. O, what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion...
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