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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. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and... "
The American Whig Review - Page 64
1847
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 46

1827 - 698 pages
...vision. I saw her just above the 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.' — (Ibid.) AH his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...I saw her just above the -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 joy. Oh ! what a revolution \—and what a heart must 1 have, to contemplate, without...
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American Lady's Preceptor: A Compilation of Observations, Essays, and ...

1811 - 386 pages
...vision. I saw her just above the 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! what a revolution! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion,...
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O'Donnel: A National Tale, Volume 3

Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1815 - 364 pages
...emotion, " when she first rose above the horizon, decorating and cheering the {elevated sphere she began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." " And little," said O'Donnel, catching the enthusiasm, " did we then dream that...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 pages
...vision. 1 saw her just above the 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 ! what a resolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate, without...
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The New Edinburgh review

1822 - 694 pages
...vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and of joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without...
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The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflections

1821 - 362 pages
...vision. I saw her just above the 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. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion...
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The North American Review, Volume 18

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 478 pages
...Versailles, like a bright seraphic vision, ' cheering and decorating the elevated sphere she was destined to move in — glittering like the morning star — full of life, and splendor, and joy.' / Our learned brethren of the London Quarterly, in their review of the work before...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...vision. I saw her just above the 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! what a revolution! — and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without...
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The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 pages
...vision. I saw her just above the 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 ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion...
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