 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1853 - 972 pages
...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 Queen of France, then...lighted on this orb. which she hardly seemed to touch, :i more delightful vision. 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1853 - 456 pages
...or seventeen years1, | since I saw the queen of France, | then the dauphiness, | at Versailles1 ; | and surely, never lighted on this orb, | (which she...hardly seemed to touch) | a more delightful vis,ion. | J saw her just above the horizon, | decorating, and cheering the elevated sphere | she just began... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1853 - 420 pages
...is now," says 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 the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and interest of Madame du Barri, fur a considerable time estranged from the Dauphiness, and evinced a coldness... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Orators - 1853 - 972 pages
...ignoble hand. 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, n more delightful vision. 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere... | |
 | Marilyn Morris - History - 1998 - 252 pages
...Antoinette, which lies at the center of the work, is rich in its emotional resonances: 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!... | |
 | Hilda L. Smith - History - 1998 - 428 pages
...Vindication of the Rights of Men, 30. 25 Burke recounts his famous vision thus: 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 splendor and joy. (Reflections,... | |
 | Mandy Merck - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 252 pages
...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...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.' These were... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...Antoinette, Burke became an outspoken critic of the excesses of the Revolution. It is now 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 splendor and joy. O, what a revolution!... | |
 | Srinivas Aravamudan - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 444 pages
...full of life and splendor and joy." With a delicate pun that conflates earth and eye, Burke avers, "surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision" (8:126).72 Word for word, this image is a reversal of the horror felt by Cheselden's boy at the sight... | |
 | Emma Clery, Robert Miles - Fiction - 2000 - 322 pages
...had the elements of a constitution very nearly as good as could be wished. . . . 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 morningstar, 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. 
