 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
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - 1845 - 188 pages
...France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles: and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision ! I saw...morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Little did I dream I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - 1845 - 404 pages
...France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her...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,... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...sixteen or seVenteen-years/ since I saw the Queen of Fra'nce, then the daup'hiness, at Versai'lles ; and surely never ligh'ted on this o'rb (which sh'e...de'corating and che'ering the elevated sph'ere/ she had just begun to move i'n, — glit'tering like the morning-sta'r ; full of life, and sple'ndour,... | |
 | Louis Adolphe Thiers - 1845 - 470 pages
...Revolution. E. * " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Vei sailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the ein vated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, thgn the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 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 seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. OF EDMUND BURKE. 149 I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1846 - 398 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,... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1846 - 598 pages
...unexpectedly to the quotation from Burke, to which they refer : — " And surely never lighted on Ms orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and juy." The sentence is truly harmonious, and the images seem to be snatched hastily from the fragments... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...years, \ since I saw the Queen of France, || then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ;\ and surely || n ever lighted on this orb , which she hardly || seemed to touch, a more delight fu 1 vision. I saw her || just above the horizon , \ decorating and cheering \\ the elevated... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 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...morning star; full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation... | |
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