 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1845 - 510 pages
...celebrated comparison of the Queeu of France, though going to the verge of chaste style, hardly passes it. " And surely, never lighted' on this orb, which she...and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to imove in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour 'and joy." J All his* writings,... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - 1845 - 188 pages
...Gallia's King! Columbia's great ally!" And thus the great English orator of that day describes her: " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...Versailles: and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision ! I saw her, just above the horizon, decorating... | |
 | Louis Adolphe Thiers - 1845 - 470 pages
...Revolution. E. * " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Vei sailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the ein vated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour,... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - 1845 - 404 pages
...AND PITT, COMPARED WITH extract, as a characteristic specimen, both of his written and spoken style. "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw...; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...glittering like the morning star full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1846 - 398 pages
...and love, or will read her history without sorrow." MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF LOUIS XVIII. BtJHKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate, without emotion, that elevation... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1846 - 598 pages
...unexpectedly to the quotation from Burke, to which they refer : — " And surely never lighted on Ms orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and juy." The sentence is truly harmonious, and the images seem to be snatched hastily from... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...and surely || n ever lighted on this orb , which she hardly || seemed to touch, a more delight fu 1 vision. I saw her || just above the horizon , \ decorating...morning star; full || of life and splendor and joy. Oh ! || whatarevolution!\ and what a heart || must I have, to con template || without emotion , / that... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 400 pages
...admiration and love, or will read her history without sorrow." MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OP LOUIS XVI. BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate, without emotion, that elevation... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...should resound throughout the universe. LESSON XXXVIII. Apostrophe to the Queen of France. — BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...glittering like the morning star; full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
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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... 
