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" 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 cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in -glittering like the morning-star, full... "
Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta ... queen of France and Navarre, tr. by R.C. Dallas - Page 97
by Joseph Weber - 1805
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Burke's Politics: A Study in Whig Orthodoxy

Frederick Dreyer - 1979 - 104 pages
...rather was to state the dramatic circumstances that ought to have aroused the compassion of natural man. "Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I have,...to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall!"24 Why, Burke asked, did he feel so differently from Price and his friends? "For this plain...
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The Romantic Age in Prose: An Anthology

Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1980 - 176 pages
...sphere she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must...to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did l dream that, when she added titles of veneration to those 23 of enthusiastic,...
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Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy

Marilyn Butler - 1984 - 280 pages
...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...to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant,...
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When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language ...

James Boyd White - 1985 - 400 pages
...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...to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall ! [P. 169] This is how the French Assembly conducts its deliberations: They act like the...
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University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 7: The Old ...

Keith M. Baker, John W. Boyer, Julius Kirshner - 1987 - 480 pages
...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...to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant,...
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Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

David Duff - 1994 - 304 pages
...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...to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant,...
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Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill

Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli - 1994 - 236 pages
...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...to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! (89) And so the transfiguration would seem to be complete: uncanny has been refigured as...
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Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s ...

Claudia L. Johnson - 2009 - 256 pages
...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...to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant,...
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Romantic Writings

Stephen Bygrave - 1996 - 364 pages
...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...to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant,...
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The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory

Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 pages
...sphere she just began to move in, - glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must...to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream that, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant,...
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