| 1830 - 408 oldal
...strictly applicable to what I beheld in her. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years," he observes,* " since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness,...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life and splendour, and joy. Oh!... | |
| James Hardiman - 1831 - 488 oldal
...reader of Edmund Burke's* celebrated description of the Queen of the unfortunate Lewis XVI. of France, " Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...like the morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful passage, the force of early impressions is clearly shown. Beauty in our native lyrics,... | |
| James Hardiman - 1831 - 484 oldal
...reader of Edmund Burke's* celebrated description of the Queen of the unfortunate Lewis XVI. of France, " Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like Ihe morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful passage, the force of early impressions... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 oldal
...villany, and whoever may partake of the plunder. VII. APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE.—Burke. SIR, it is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...:—glittering, like the morning star ; full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution!—and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
| Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers - 1838 - 448 oldal
...French Revolution. E. •}, " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb,...morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." — Burke's Reflections. E. J " Turgot, of whom Malesherbes said ' He has the head of Bacon and the... | |
| Adolphe Thiers - 1838 - 454 oldal
...Alison's French Revolution. E. f " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb,...morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." — Burke's Reflections. E. J " Turgot, of whom Malesherbes said ' He has the head of Bacon and the... | |
| 346 oldal
...writers. Speaking of Marie Antoinette, this elegant author says, ' Surely never lighted on this orh, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.' By the syren voice of such a being, were the better feelings of the unfortunate Louis ever subdued... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1839 - 546 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...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star ; full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 476 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 hardly...the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy."f All his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples of the abuse of this style,... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 488 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 hardly...the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy."f All his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples of the abuse of this style,... | |
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