 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...  English Prose (1137-1890) - Strona 274pod redakcją - 1909 - Liczba stron: 544Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - Liczba stron: 426
...liberties — let us conquer, or die ! Section II. EULOGIUM OF ANTOINETTE, THE LATE QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just began to move in, glittering like the morning star ; full of life, and splendour, and joy.... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - Liczba stron: 490
...liberties—let us conquer, or die ! Section 11. EULOGIUM OF ANTOINETTE, THE LATE QUEEN OF FRANCE. . It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just began to... | |
 | 1821 - Liczba stron: 362
...the succeeding days, that she bears the imprisonment of her husband, and her own captivity, and Hie exile of her friends, and the insulting adulation...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 a heart must I... | |
 | 1822 - Liczba stron: 694
...since I saw the Queen of France, then the Daupluness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted upon this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more...sphere she just began to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and of joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must... | |
 | 1836 - Liczba stron: 496
...of France, then Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her...— glittering like the morning-star, full of life, splendour, and joy. Oh, what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - Liczba stron: 668
...urge me rather to save the man, than to preserve his brazen slippers as the monuments of his folly. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - Liczba stron: 264
...protect the villany, and whoever may partake of the plunder. APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. BURKE. IT is now, sixteen or seventeen years since I saw...she just began to move in: — glittering, like the morning star; full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! — and what a heart must... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - Liczba stron: 182
...FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphincss, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb,...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must... | |
 | 1830 - Liczba stron: 408
...strictly applicable to what I beheld in her. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years," he observes,* " since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness,...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life and splendour, and joy. Oh!... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - Liczba stron: 488
...reader of Edmund Burke's* celebrated description of the Queen of the unfortunate Lewis XVI. of France, " 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 splendour." In this beautiful passage, the force of early impressions... | |
| |
