 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.  The Port Folio - Σελίδα 281810Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1836 - 496 σελίδες
...her charms : — " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I first saw the Queen of France, then Dauphiness, at 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 and... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 σελίδες
...urge me rather to save the man, than to preserve his brazen slippers as the monuments of his folly. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 σελίδες
...protect the villany, and whoever may partake of the plunder. APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. BURKE. IT is now, sixteen or seventeen years since I saw...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in: — glittering, like the morning star; full of life, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 σελίδες
...the patrimony of the fame of my honourable friend, and not of Cicero. ANTOINETTA, QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphincss, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch,... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - 588 σελίδες
...passes it : ' And surely never lighted on this orb, which she ' hardly seemed to touch, a more delighful vision. ' I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and ' cheering the elevated sphere she just began to ' move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of ' life,... | |
 | 1830 - 408 σελίδες
...strictly applicable to what I beheld in her. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years," he observes,* " since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness,...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life and splendour,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1830 - 364 σελίδες
...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 orb'd moon shone with uncommon splendor. 'Till that a capable... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 σελίδες
...desolation, I Marie Antoinette, Queen of fflance. — fflom ' Reflections on the Revolution in France.* ch scene I How often have I paused on every charm ; The sheltered cot, the cul dauphlneae, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which ehe hardly seemed to touch,... | |
 | 1832 - 600 σελίδες
...being who stole me from myself ! Burke's rapture, however, on the queen of France, — ' surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision, — 'would have been quite inapplicable, for touch it she did, and stood firm on it with the help of... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 488 σελίδες
...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...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour."... | |
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