 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
 | Carolly Erickson - 2004 - 396 pages
...about this time Edmund Burke saw Antoinette at Versailles, and wrote an ecstatic reminiscence of her. "Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch," Burke wrote, "a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 2004 - 336 pages
...Marie-Antoinette: It is now 16 or 17 years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphine 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 I must have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 2005 - 520 pages
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 | Richard W. Barber - 2005 - 220 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 . . . Little did I dream that I should have lived to see disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant... | |
 | Hansjörg Bay, Kai Merten - 2006 - 674 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, füll of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I... | |
 | Robert Morrison - 2005 - 182 pages
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 | Susan Maslan - 2005 - 304 pages
...seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed...to move in, — glittering like the morning star. (Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 169) Burkes chivalrous attitude toward the victimized... | |
 | Mary Mostert - 2005 - 270 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. 0, what... | |
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