 | Joseph Rathborne - 1842 - 90 pages
...and the prosperity of our country ; " decorating and cheering the elevated sphere in which she moves, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." For our venerable brother had often combated, even to the 12 utmost peril, both by his learned pen... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 468 pages
...outburst of the eloquent Burke : " 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 begun to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.... | |
 | Robert Peel - Great Britain - 1843 - 504 pages
...that orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a lovelier vision. I saw her just above the horizon, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour and joy." This, I think, with justice and without exaggeration, may fairly be applied to the present Queen of... | |
 | 1844 - 778 pages
...Revolution; and the quotaBURKE. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb,...seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her juat above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...to 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 splendor, and joy. O, what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1846 - 606 pages
...writing of these words, I come unexpectedly to the quotation from Burke, to which they refer : — " And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." The sentence is truly harmonious, and the images seem to be snatched hastily from the fragments of... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 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...the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy,'"10 — Pp. 175 — 180. <*•'• " It is another characteristic of this great writer, that the... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seVenteen-years/ since I saw the Queen of Fra'nce, then the daup'hiness, at Versai'lles ; and surely...de'corating and che'ering the elevated sph'ere/ she had just begun to move i'n, — glit'tering like the morning-sta'r ; full of life, and sple'ndour,... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - American essays - 1845 - 404 pages
...France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her...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,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1845 - 510 pages
...celebrated comparison of the Queeu of France, though going to the verge of chaste style, hardly passes it. " And surely, never lighted' on this orb, which she...and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to imove in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour 'and joy." J All his* writings,... | |
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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. 
