 It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of Prance, 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...  Writings and Speeches - Page 345de Edmund Burke - 1901Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Linda Colley - 2005 - 452 pages
...from their clutches to seek refuge, as a proper woman should, 'at the feet of a king and husband": It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France . . . and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch a more delightful vision... | |
 | Philip Mooney - 1994 - 182 pages
..."Private Gar" summons the poetic lines that symbolize total belonging for him: "It is now 16 or 17 years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles." But his very love for her keeps him from speaking his feelings. His beloved Kathleen has chosen another... | |
 | Claudia L. Johnson - 2009 - 256 pages
...sovereign lineage and the "lofty sentiments" that link her to a presentimental age.29 She "feels like a Roman matron; that in the last extremity she will...she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand." Here is not the soft terror of beauty in distress, nor the palpitations of a male onlooker, like the... | |
 | David Wootton - 1996 - 964 pages
...serene patience, in a manner suited to her rank and race, and becoming the offspring of a sovereign dKfLfMf g g(U f b b g,g LoT of'France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 476 pages
...serene patience, in a manner suited to her rank and race, and becoming the offspring of a sovereign distinguished for her piety and her courage; that...if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating... | |
 | Julia A. Stern - 1997 - 328 pages
...whole weight of her accumulated wrongs, with a serene patience; . . . she has lofty sentiments; . . . she feels with the dignity of a Roman matron; that...if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. (169) Burke's vision of eighteenth-century female heroism remains a fascinating touchstone for Brown's... | |
 | Norma Thompson - 2008 - 256 pages
...unseemly events of October 6, 1789, he writes: "I hear, and I rejoice to hear, that the great lady. . . . has lofty sentiments; that she feels with the dignity...if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand" (66). In truth, the restraint of Burke 's prose shields no horrors from the reader. Pocock misses the... | |
 | Catherine Spooner - 2004 - 236 pages
...Lucrece, end her own life rather than suffer shame: 'she feels with the dignity of a Roman matron; ... in the last extremity she will save herself from the last disgrace, and ... if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand.'5-1 In her self-conscious revealment, Matilda... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2005 - 848 pages
...serene patience, in a manner suited to her rank and race, and becoming the offspring of a sovereign distinguished for her piety and her courage ; 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 queen of France, then the dauphiness,... | |
 | Susan Maslan - 2005 - 304 pages
...scélérate, 79. 52. Edmund Burke offers the best-known admiring Account, of Marie- Antoinette as spectacle: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw... | |
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