 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...descended, as the Duke of Bedford would have it, from an unworthy parent. Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, thgn the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...and love, or will read her history without sorrow." MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF LOUIS XVIII. BtJHKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1846 - 598 pages
...unexpectedly to the quotation from Burke, to which they refer : — " And surely never lighted on Ms orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and juy." The sentence is truly harmonious, and the images... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...to describe the lessons and subjects of study for the Junior and Senior classes. QUEEN ANTOINETTE. It is now || sixteen or seventeen years, \ since I...|| then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ;\ and surely || n ever lighted on this orb , which she hardly || seemed to touch, a more delight fu 1 vision. I... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 pages
...admiration and love, or will read her history without sorrow." MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OP LOUIS XVI. BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I... | |
 | Marilyn Morris - History - 1998 - 252 pages
...apostrophe to Marie 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...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!... | |
 | Hilda L. Smith - History - 1998 - 428 pages
...A Vindrcation of the RightsofMen, 30. -'' Burke recounts his famous vision thus: It is now so:teen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France,...dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orh. which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon,... | |
 | Edmund Burke (III) - History - 1999 - 356 pages
...will save herself from the 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...morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation... | |
 | David Bromwich - Literary Collections - 1999 - 484 pages
...interested historian. Such was the example of Marie Antoinette as Burke presented her in the Reflections. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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!... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...beheading of Queen Marie Antoinette, Burke became an outspoken critic of the excesses of the Revolution. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...horizon, 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... | |
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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. 
