 | Francis Wayland - 1861 - 444 pages
...appearance of the morning star. His mind turned at once towards the beautiful image, and he says, " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." Thus Longinus, when he is comparing the eloquence of Demosthenes and Cicero, turns to nature for analogies.... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1854 - 436 pages
...His mind turned at once towards the beautiful image, and he says, ' ( It is now sixteen or sevent%n years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness,...morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." Thus Longinus, when he is comparing the eloquence of Demosthenes and Cicero, turns to nature for analogies.... | |
 | 1854 - 576 pages
...will cull to mind this accusation, and be comforted. 63. MARIE ANTOINETTE, K90., — Edmund Rurke. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...to move in, — glittering like the morning star, 'ull of life, and splendor, and joy. O ! what a revolution ! and what a heart mu^t I have, to contemplate... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 476 pages
...will save herself from the last disgrace, and that if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...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 I... | |
 | Hilda L. Smith - 1998 - 428 pages
...24 Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, 30. 25 Burke recounts his famous vision thus: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...the morning star full of life and splendor and joy. (Reflections, ed. JGA Pocock [Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1987], 66) In the Vindication, Wollstonecraft... | |
 | Marilyn Morris - 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!... | |
 | Mandy Merck - 1998 - 252 pages
...Burke in 1790 toward that adornment to the feudal corruption of the French Bourbons, Marie Antoinette: 'Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy.'... | |
 | David Bromwich - 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 - 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. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and... 
