 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
 | Colin Bingham - 2006 - 428 pages
...walking, grace itself when she moves." Burke's ecstasy is famous: "I saw her just above the horizon, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." But for every one who remembers that passage, at least a hundred believe she said, "Then let them eat... | |
 | Jane Hodson - 2007 - 244 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 morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2007 - 444 pages
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 | Elizabeth Inchbald - 2007 - 454 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 splendor, and joy. Oh! And what a heart must I have, to contemplate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2007 - 448 pages
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 | Daniel I. O'Neill - 2010 - 306 pages
...still the young dauphiness, when he saw her on his only trip to France, in 1773. "Surely," he wrote, "never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy" (8:126). The hardheaded point of this most romantic... | |
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