 | 346 pages
...writers. Speaking of Marie Antoinette, this elegant author says, ' Surely never lighted on this orh, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.' By the syren voice of such a being, were the better feelings of the unfortunate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 546 pages
...save 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...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star ; full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 476 pages
...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...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy."f All his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples of the abuse... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 434 pages
...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...her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering Hie elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...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 - 300 pages
...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... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 738 pages
...subjected, and the daily insults they were doomed to undergo, and burst into an impassioned exclamation. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...I " saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheer" ing the elevated sphere she just began to move in, " glittering like the morning star, full... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 702 pages
...subjected, and the daily insults they were doomed to undergo, and burst into an impassioned exclamation. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...I " saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheer" ing the elevated sphere she just began to move in, " glittering like the morning star, full... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...And laid my hand upon thy mane' — | as I do here,. | APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. (BURKE.) It is now sixteen, or seventeen years', | since I...more delightful vis.ion. | I saw her just above the horrzon, | decorating, and cheering the elevated sphere , | she just began to move, in — glittering... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1842 - 360 pages
...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 seemed to touch,...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy."* All his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples of the abuse... | |
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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... 
