 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 608 pages
...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...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 must... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...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...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morningstar, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...MARIE ANTOINETTE, 1790.i — Edmund Burke. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and...delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, deeorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...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...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating nnd cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | Marilyn Morris - 1998 - 252 pages
...work, is rich in its emotional resonances: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution!... | |
 | Mandy Merck - 1998 - 252 pages
...Burke in 1790 toward that adornment to the feudal corruption of the French Bourbons, Marie Antoinette: 'Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...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.'... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1999 - 484 pages
...Burke presented her in the Reflections. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution!... | |
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 pages
...critic of the excesses of the Revolution. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like the morning star full of life and splendor and joy. O, what... | |
 | Srinivas Aravamudan - 1999 - 444 pages
...full of life and splendor and joy." With a delicate pun that conflates earth and eye, Burke avers, "surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision" (8:126).72 Word for word, this image is a reversal of the horror felt by Cheselden's boy at the sight... | |
 | Steve Martinot - 2001 - 382 pages
...of France ("then the dauphiness"), as she "lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch": I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. . . . Little did I dream . . . that she should ever be obliged... | |
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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... 
