 | 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
...collec'ted. EULOGIUM ON MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seVenteen-years/ since I saw the Queen of Fra'nce, then the daup'hiness,...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,... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - Education - 1845 - 188 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...morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Little did I dream I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. OF EDMUND BURKE. 149 I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...splendour, and joy ! Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall ! Little did I dream,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall ! Little did I dream,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Louis Adolphe Thiers - France - 1845 - 470 pages
...Revolution. E. * " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Vei sailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the ein vated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour,... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...and love, or will read her history without sorrow." MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF LOUIS XVIII. BtJHKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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,... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1846 - 598 pages
...unexpectedly to the quotation from Burke, to which they refer : — " And surely never lighted on Ms orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and juy." The sentence is truly harmonious, and the images seem to be snatched hastily from the fragments... | |
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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... 
