 | 1844 - 778 oldal
...unfortunate queen of France, selected from the Essay on the French Revolution; and the quotaBURKE. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 oldal
...pardon something to the spirit of liberty. LESSON CLXVII. Apostrophe to the Queen of France. BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in; glittering like the morning star; full of life, and splendor, and joy. O, what a revolution... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 oldal
...collec'ted. EULOGIUM ON MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seVenteen-years/ since I saw the Queen of Fra'nce, then the daup'hiness,...de'corating and che'ering the elevated sph'ere/ she had just begun to move i'n, — glit'tering like the morning-sta'r ; full of life, and sple'ndour,... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 oldal
...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...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. OF EDMUND BURKE. 149 I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1846 - 606 oldal
...writing of these words, I come unexpectedly to the quotation from Burke, to which they refer : — " And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." The sentence is truly... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 oldal
...celebrated comparison of the Queen of France, though going to the verge of chaste style, hardly passes it ' And, surely, never lighted on this orb, which she...and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy,'"10 — Pp. 175 —... | |
 | Louis Adolphe Thiers - 1845 - 470 oldal
...Revolution. E. * " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Vei sailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the ein vated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour,... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - 1845 - 188 oldal
...Gallia's King! Columbia's great ally!" And thus the great English orator of that day describes her: " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - 1845 - 404 oldal
...AND PITT, COMPARED WITH extract, as a characteristic specimen, both of his written and spoken style. "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw...; 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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 oldal
...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... | |
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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. 
