 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
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - Liczba stron: 484
...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 Ihe morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful passage, the force of early impressions... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - Liczba stron: 652
...her, she has lofty sentiments ; that she feels with the dignity of a Roman matron ; that in the lost ertainly liberal ; and all was done by charity that...together, these creatures of sufferance, whose very morning star ; full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - Liczba stron: 404
...villany, and whoever may partake of the plunder. VII. APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE.—Burke. SIR, it is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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... | |
 | Adolphe Thiers - 1838 - Liczba stron: 454
...Alison's French Revolution. E. f " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France 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." — Burke's Reflections. E. J " Turgot, of whom... | |
 | Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers - 1838 - Liczba stron: 448
...French Revolution. E. •}, " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France 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." — Burke's Reflections. E. J " Turgot, of whom... | |
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...writers. Speaking of Marie Antoinette, this elegant author says, ' Surely never lighted on this orh, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.' By the syren voice of such a being, were the better... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - Liczba stron: 554
...sorry to say it, very sorr^ indeed, that such personages are in a situation in which it is not becoming in us to praise the virtues of the great. I hear,...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... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - Liczba stron: 476
...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 hardly...she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy."f All his writings, but especially his later ones,... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - Liczba stron: 300
...rank and race, and becoming the offspring of a Sovereign distinguished for her piety and courage. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...horizon, 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - Liczba stron: 612
...rank and race, and becoming the offspring of a Sovereign distinguished for her piety and courage. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...horizon, 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... | |
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