 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...  Reflections on the Revolution in France - Strona 84autor: Edmund Burke - 1890 - Liczba stron: 484Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - Liczba stron: 488
...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,...began to move in, — glittering like the morning * State Trials, vol. ii. p. 360, 363. star, .full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution... | |
 | 1810 - Liczba stron: 702
...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 cheering the eleyated sphere she just began to moves in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor,... | |
 | 1809 - Liczba stron: 572
...curiosity to see the royal family and particularly the queen, who was then, as Mr. Burke describes her, just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she was beginning to move in — a sad change has taken place; the pomp of royalty is fled, and all is... | |
 | 1827 - Liczba stron: 698
...hardly passes it. ' And surely, never ' lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more ' delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon,...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, ' and joy.' — (Ibid.) AH his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - Liczba stron: 552
...she just began to move in—glit" tering like the morning star, full of life, and " splendour, arid joy. Oh ! what a revolution! " And what an heart must...to contemplate " without emotion that elevation and fall!—- " Little did I dream, that when she added titles H '2 " of veneration to those of enthusiastic,... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - Liczba stron: 552
..." 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 ele" vated sphere she just began to move in — glit" tering like the morning star, full of life, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - Liczba stron: 512
...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 cheering the elevated sphere she just began tomove in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a... | |
 | 1811 - Liczba stron: 386
...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,...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - Liczba stron: 428
...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 cheering the elevated sphere she had just began to move in,— —glittering like the morning star ; full of life, and splendor, and... | |
 | 1820 - Liczba stron: 524
...her shoulders, and bear her aloft upon the ambient ether. It is thus that for some time we see her " glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." And then anon, " oh, what a revolution !" a fatal passion seizes her ; the graces and the muses gradually... | |
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