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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... "
Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes... - Page 454
by Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 764 pages
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Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of ..., Volume 1

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 476 pages
...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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Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III.

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 488 pages
...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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A memoir of the political life of ... Edmund Burke

George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...rank and race, and becoming the offspring of a Sovereign distinguished for her piety and courage. " 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 splendour, and joy...
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A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund ..., Volume 2

George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...rank and race, and becoming the offspring of a Sovereign distinguished for her piety and courage. " 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 splendour, and joy...
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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...(which she hardly seemed to touch) a more delightful vis.ion. | I saw her just above the horrzon, | decorating, and cheering the elevated sphere , | she...splen'dour, | and joy,. | 'Oh what , a revolution ! j and what a heart must I have, | to contemplate without emotion, | that elevation, am/ that fall,...
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Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of ..., Volume 1

Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1842 - 360 pages
...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 seemed to touch,...morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy."* All his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples of the abuse of this style, in...
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Tales and Souvenirs of a Residence in Europe

Judith Page Walker Rives - 1842 - 328 pages
...being safe "beneath the shadow of his wing." SURPRISES. ' Behold a man much wronged." COM. OF ERRORS. " I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...morning star, full of life and splendour and joy." BURKE. UNCONSCIOUS of the events that were occurring at Lansdale, Medwyn, at the urgent and almost...
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History of Our Own Times, Volume 1

Thomas Campbell, Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 468 pages
...reader, on perusing such details, is not reminded of the impassioned outburst of the eloquent Burke : " 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 splendour, and joy....
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...of France.} [From • R*ueotioni on the Revolution In France.'] It ie now sixteen or seventeen yean a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall ! Little did I dream,...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...France.'] It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphmesa, little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since...pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall ! Little did I dream,...
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