 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 484 pages
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 360 pages
...the foregoing tables ; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orUd moon shone with uncommon splendor. Till that a capable... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 356 pages
...the foregoing tables; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orVd moon shone with uncommon splendor. 'Till that a capable... | |
 | Portuguêz - 1833 - 374 pages
...herdeira de uma poderosa monarchia, cortada * " I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cbeering the elevated sphere, she just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life, of -splundor, and joy. — BURKE L a logo nos primeiros tempos do seu hymeneu... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphin»*, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on the — but just as reasonable, as many of the serious wishes of very me horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, — glitten«; like... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen tion which stretched out its hands for food. For months...together, these creatures of sufferance, whose very star ; full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must I have,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE.—Burke. SIR, it is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and...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 have,... | |
 | 1836 - 432 pages
...figure is a portrait of the fascinating Queen herself, sculptured at the very time when, as Burke says " never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delighftul vision." This, like the former statue, is devoid of drapery. The position of the body, and... | |
 | 1837 - 186 pages
...young man to whom I have awarded the first place, explained promptly and accurately the expressions ' surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision,'' ' decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,' ' enthusiastic, distant,... | |
 | Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers - 1838 - 448 pages
...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,...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 Malesherbes... | |
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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. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and... 
