 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 pages
...ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OP LOUIS XVI. BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never...morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate, without emotion, that elevation... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...the Queen of France. — BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never...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... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 348 pages
...God, she had a strange BURKE. It is now sixteen, or seventeen years, since I saw the Queen of France at Versailles ; and surely, never lighted on this...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Ah, what a revolution ! and what a heart must I... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...patron of Gluck, and brought his music into fashion. She won the ardent admiration of Burke, who wrote: "Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizjn, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 344 pages
...infinity, a more delightful vision. I with a certain and silent mosaw her just above the hori- tion. zon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Ah, what a revolution ! and what a heart must I... | |
 | 1847 - 722 pages
...setting out on the highway of heaven, 'decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just begins to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and joy' — shall she be supposed to be polluting and corroding her noble and happy heart, by moping over... | |
 | 1847 - 722 pages
...setting out on the highway of heaven, 'decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just begins to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and joy' — shall she be supposed to be polluting and corroding her noble and happy heart, by moping over... | |
 | John Cumming - 1848 - 558 pages
...apostrophe of Burke : " It is now sixteen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness of 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... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - France - 1848 - 400 pages
...Louis XVI., and the unfortunate Marie Antoinette, who was that year described by Burke as " decorating the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering...morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." The Duke of Chartres professed the deepest * See Frontispiece. t The House of Orleans. Note A. gratitude... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...ANTOINETTE, THE LATE QUEEN OF FRANCE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never...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.... | |
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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. 
