 | Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...and surely || n ever lighted on this orb , which she hardly || seemed to touch, a more delight fu 1 vision. I saw her || just above the horizon , \ decorating...glittering || like the morning star; full || of life and splendor and joy. Oh ! || whatarevolution!\ and what a heart || must I have, to con template || without... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...should resound throughout the universe. LESSON XXXVIII. Apostrophe to the Queen of France. — BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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 Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 pages
...admiration and love, or will read her history without sorrow." MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OP LOUIS XVI. BURKE. 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,... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF LOUIS XVI. BOHKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of Prance, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must 1 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... | |
 | 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,...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,... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...that should resound through the universe. ROBERTSON. EULOGIUM OF ANTOINETTE, THE LATE QUEEN OF FRANCE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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.... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1849 - 708 pages
..." It is now," says 12. Mr Burke, in a passage which will live as long as the " English language, " sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of...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. Oh... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...penury, and imprisonment, Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. VII. — MAU1E ANTOINETTE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh 1 what a revolution ! and what a heart must... | |
 | Benjamin Cowell - Rhode Island - 1850 - 364 pages
...lighted * Marie Antoinette was born Nov. 2, 1765— married in May, 1770— was beheaded Oct. 25, 1793. on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more...glittering like the morning star — full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! — and what an heart must I have, to contemplate, without... | |
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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... 
