 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 страници
...sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphincss, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...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... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - 588 страници
...passes it : ' And surely never lighted on this orb, which she ' hardly seemed to touch, a more delighful vision. ' I saw her just above the horizon, decorating...she just began to ' move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of ' life, and splendour, and joy.' (Ibid.) All his writings, but especially his... | |
 | 1829 - 552 страници
...the beau ideal of the Roman character — the image of his country, in all her original brightness, "glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy." It was impossible that he should have • selected a better aera or more suitable characters. Still... | |
 | 1830 - 408 страници
...seventeen years," he observes,* " since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life and splendour, and joy. Oh!... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1830 - 360 страници
...foregoing tables ; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orVd moon shone with uncommon splendor. Till that a capable... | |
 | 1832 - 600 страници
...being who stole me from myself ! Burke's rapture, however, on the queen of France, — ' surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision, — 'would have been quite inapplicable, for touch it she did, and stood firm on it with the help of... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 488 страници
...reader of Edmund Burke's* celebrated description of the Queen of the unfortunate Lewis XVI. of France, " Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful passage, the force of early impressions is clearly shown. Beauty in our... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 484 страници
...reader of Edmund Burke's* celebrated description of the Queen of the unfortunate Lewis XVI. of France, " Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like Ihe morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful passage, the force of early impressions... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 356 страници
...foregoing tables; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orVd moon shone with uncommon splendor. 'Till that a capable... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 360 страници
...foregoing tables ; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orUd moon shone with uncommon splendor. Till that a capable... | |
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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. 
