 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF LOUIS XVI. BOHKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of Prance, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 348 pages
...God, she had a strange BURKE. It is now sixteen, or seventeen years, since I saw the Queen of France at Versailles ; and surely, never lighted on this...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Ah,... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...patron of Gluck, and brought his music into fashion. She won the ardent admiration of Burke, who wrote: "Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizjn, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the... | |
 | John Cumming - 1848 - 558 pages
...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,...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy. Oh... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1849 - 708 pages
...now," says 12. Mr Burke, in a passage which will live as long as the " English language, " sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then...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. Oh ! what... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. VII. — MAU1E ANTOINETTE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere, she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.... | |
 | Benjamin Cowell - Rhode Island - 1850 - 364 pages
...lighted * Marie Antoinette was born Nov. 2, 1765— married in May, 1770— was beheaded Oct. 25, 1793. on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star — full of life, and splendor, and joy.... | |
 | Bernard Burke - Heraldry - 1850 - 630 pages
...Burke saw her at Versailles ; his well-known brilliant description of her, is familiar to all — " Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I sawherjustabovethehorizon,decoratingand cheering theelevated sphere she just began to move in ; glittering... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...oppression, and the insolent spurn of contempt. MAEIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh... | |
 | John Cumming - Bible - 1851 - 592 pages
...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,...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy. Oh... | |
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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. 
