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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. "
The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ... - Page 209
by Increase Cooke - 1811 - 408 pages
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Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of ..., Volume 1

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1842 - 360 pages
...the Queen of France, though going to the verge of chaste style, hardly passes it. " And surely.never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch,...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy."*...
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Tales and Souvenirs of a Residence in Europe

Judith Page Walker Rives - 1842 - 328 pages
...being safe "beneath the shadow of his wing." SURPRISES. ' Behold a man much wronged." COM. OF ERRORS. " I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy." BURKE....
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History of Our Own Times, Volume 1

Thomas Campbell, Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 468 pages
...details, is not reminded of the impassioned outburst of the eloquent Burke : " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then...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. Oh, what...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...of France.} [From • R*ueotioni on the Revolution In France.'] It ie now sixteen or seventeen yean so c".0c".`J!. just began to move in — glittering like the morning star full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...France.'] It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphmesa, little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since...been pushing on my work through difficulties, of whi just began to move in — glittering like the morning star full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh...
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 29

1844 - 778 pages
...Revolution; and the quotaBURKE. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb,...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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The rhetorical reader, consisting of choice specimens of oratorical ...

John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...collec'ted. EULOGIUM ON MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seVenteen-years/ since I saw the Queen of Fra'nce, then the daup'hiness,...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, and jo'y....
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The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ...

William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...the spirit of liberty. LESSON CLXVII. Apostrophe to the Queen of France. BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in; glittering like the morning star; full of life, and splendor, and joy. O, what...
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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...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." The...
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Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and ..., Volumes 1-2

Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...celebrated comparison of the Queen of France, though going to the verge of chaste style, hardly passes it ' And, surely, never lighted on this orb, which she...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy,'"10...
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