 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...conquer —or die ! . SECTION II. Eulogium of Antoinette, the late 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 had just began to move in,— —glittering like the morning star ; full of life, and splendor, and... | |
 | John Thelwall - Elocution - 1812 - 370 pages
...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...glittering, like the morningstar ; full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! — and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...within it which possesses mine : " It is now," said the immortal Burke, in 1790, "sixteen or eighteen years since I saw the " Queen of France, then the...just above " the horizon, decorating and cheering the ele" vated sphere she just began to move in — glit" tering like the morning star, full of life, and... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1812 - 778 pages
...Queen of France, then tlw Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never alighted on this orb, which site hardly seemed to touch, a more DELIGHTFUL VISION....cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, — if littering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." - - " tittle did I dream... | |
 | Great Britain - 1812 - 744 pages
...surely never alighted on this nrli, which she hartllv scctned to touch, a inoix; DELIGIITFPL VISION. 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, — glitteriHjf like the morning star, upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...will save herself from the hst 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 the Uauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 464 pages
...fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the qqeen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and...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... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - English fiction - 1815 - 724 pages
...blotted it out for ever. TIUSTHAM SUANDY. Page 116. — Surely never lighted on this orb, Sfc. — ' And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more de. lightful vision.' Page 118.— Seizing my hand, Sfc. — ' He gently seized her hand, and carried... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1818 - 490 pages
...motives. In his "Reflections on the Revolution in France," Mr. Burke, speaking of Marie Antoinette, says: "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision." Our author, speaking of the works of the Marquis of Canova at the" palace of Obizzi, has these words:... | |
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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. 
