 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 352 pages
...j since it touches one of the finest chords of the heart,—" It is now sixteen years," said he, " since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness,...Versailles : and surely never lighted on this orb, which it hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...urge me rather to save the man, than to preserve his brazen slippers as the monuments of his folly. 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 splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 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 morning star; full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! — and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 pages
...FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphincss, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb,...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... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - 588 pages
...passes it : ' And surely never lighted on this orb, which she ' hardly seemed to touch, a more delighful vision. ' I saw her just above the horizon, decorating...she just began to ' move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of ' life, and splendour, and joy.' (Ibid.) All his writings, but especially his... | |
 | 1830 - 408 pages
...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 pages
...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...glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful passage, the force of early impressions is clearly shown. Beauty in our... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 484 pages
...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 - 1834 - 188 pages
...custom,) to his BED-CHAMBER, WHERE, (it is recorded,) he SLEPT QUIETLY for about a quarter of an hour.' ' It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I SAW the...QUEEN of FRANCE, (then the Dauphiness) at VERSAILLES.' ' He REFUSED, (saying,) NO, NO, THAT will NOT HELP me.' 'The MISERABLE INHABITANTS, (flyingfrom their... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...save herself from the last disgrace ; and that, if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. ix. No. 2Э. Apbut it was a people in beggary ; it...together, these creatures of sufferance, whose very splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without... | |
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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... 
