 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...[ifaru Antoinette, Queen of France.'] [Tram ' Reflections on the Revolution in France.'] 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 ceerned to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...us at least make one effort — and if we must fall, let us fall like THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ;l and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...to mind this accusation, and be comforted. 63. MARIE ANTOINETTE, 1790.* — Edmund Burke. 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 608 pages
...herself from the last disgrace ; and that, if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. 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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...himself; and he that expects least, sometimes attains. Sir H. Wotton. XXVIII. JWarie antohwtte. 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...to mind this accusation, and be comforted. 63. MARIE ANTOINETTE, 1790.* — Edmund Burke. 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... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...herself from the last disgrace ; and that, if she must fall, she will "all by no ignoble hand. 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. 1 saw... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...herself from the last disgrace ; and that, if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the duuphincss, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb. which she hardly seemed to touch,... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1853 - 448 pages
...the period of her accession to the throne : — " It is now," says Mr Burke, in a passage which wi 11 live as long as the English language, " sixteen or...Dauphiness, at Versailles; and interest of Madame du Barri, for a considerable time estranged from the Dauphiness, and evinced a coldness towards her which touched... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 pages
...herself from the last disgrace ; and that, if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. 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, :i more delightful vision. 1 saw... | |
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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. 
