 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...the iron hand of oppression, and the insolent spurn of contempt. MAEIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. 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 full I Little did I dream,... | |
 | John Cumming - Bible - 1851 - 592 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,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...the iron hand of oppression, and the insolent spurn of contempt. MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in—glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly ceerned he had been to me when I was lame-footed ; and how,...hour, it seemed as if he had died a great while ago, a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall ! Little did I dream,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ;l and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted. 63. MARIE ANTOINETTE, 1790.* — Edmund Burke. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. 0 ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted. 63. MARIE ANTOINETTE, 1790.* — Edmund Burke. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. 0 ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...promise himself; and he that expects least, sometimes attains. Sir H. Wotton. XXVIII. JWarie antohwtte. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morningstar, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 608 pages
...save herself from the last disgrace ; and that, if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...and surely oever lighted on thi.orb. which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...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 motion,... | |
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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... 
