 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
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...setting out on the highway of heaven, " decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just begins to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and joy," 15 shall she be supposed to be polluting and corroding her noble and happy heart, by moping over... | |
 | Benjamin Cowell - 1850 - 364 pages
...lighted * Marie Antoinette was born Nov. 2, 1765— married in May, 1770— was beheaded Oct. 25, 1793. on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more...glittering like the morning star — full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! — and what an heart must I have, to contemplate, without... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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 1 what a revolution ! and what a heart must... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1999 - 484 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...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution!... | |
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 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 splendor and joy. O, what... | |
 | Srinivas Aravamudan - 1999 - 444 pages
...full of life and splendor and joy." With a delicate pun that conflates earth and eye, Burke avers, "surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision" (8:126).72 Word for word, this image is a reversal of the horror felt by Cheselden's boy at the sight... | |
 | Emma Clery, Robert Miles - 2000 - 322 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 morningstar, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what a heart must I have... | |
 | Steve Martinot - 2001 - 382 pages
...of France ("then the dauphiness"), as she "lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch": I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. . . . Little did I dream . . . that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp... | |
 | Joseph O'Neill - 2000 - 272 pages
...France, then the Dauphiness of Versailles, and surely, never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her...horizon decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had begun to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy—Oh what... | |
 | Norma Thompson - 2008 - 256 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!" (66). With this exclamation, Burke's letter shifts from... | |
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