 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
 | Stephen Regan - 2004 - Liczba stron: 628
...WRITINGS AND SPEECHES EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797) from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | Hansjörg Bay, Kai Merten - 2006 - Liczba stron: 674
...durch einen Ursprung, der gleichwohl in der Restitution Burkes alle Züge des Nachträglichen trägt. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, füll of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I have to contemplate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2005 - Liczba stron: 848
...from the last disgrace, and that if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. 88 THE QUEEN. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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... | |
 | Richard W. Barber - 2005 - Liczba stron: 220
...Edmund Burke could evoke the past glories of chivalry in Reflections, on the Revolution in France: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...sphere she just began to move in - glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy . . . Little did I dream that I should have lived... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 2004 - Liczba stron: 336
...evocation of Marie-Antoinette: It is now 16 or 17 years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphine at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb,...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 a heart I must have... | |
 | Susan Maslan - 2005 - Liczba stron: 304
...seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning star. (Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 169) Burkes chivalrous attitude toward... | |
 | Lawrence E. Cahoone - 2010 - Liczba stron: 248
...October 6, 1789, when a Parisian mob marched to Versailles and took the king and queen into custody. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.... [Ljittle did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of... | |
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - 2006 - Liczba stron: 520
...fiiJilWfF^ Hastings) ' tflR Hffi tt ° • r (Warren ' ^ Marie Antoinette fi*J— a/ft-fti 381 Ji ' i 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 a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - Liczba stron: 512
...predictions that were borne out by subsequent events in France. FROM Reflections on the Revolution in France 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 a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Liczba stron: 718
...limbs and mutilated carcasses. Thence they were conducted into the capital of their kingdom. . . . It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...glittering like the morning-star, full of life and splendor and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
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