 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 σελίδες
...contempt. MAEIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 σελίδες
...contempt. MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely...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... | |
 | John Cumming - 1851 - 592 σελίδες
...apostrophe of Burke : "It is now sixteen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness of Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb,...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 I have... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 σελίδες
...now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ;l and 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 σελίδες
...Reflections on the Revolution in France.'] 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 ceerned to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering... | |
 | Hilda L. Smith - 1998 - 428 σελίδες
...Burke recounts his famous vision thus: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely...sphere she just began to move in glittering like the morning star full of life and splendor and joy. (Reflections, ed. JGA Pocock [Indianapolis: Hackett... | |
 | Marilyn Morris - 1998 - 252 σελίδες
...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 surely...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 σελίδες
...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.'... | |
 | Edmund Burke (III) - 1999 - 356 σελίδες
...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 surely...glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1999 - 484 σελίδες
...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 surely...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!... | |
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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. 
