 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.  Burke, Select Works - Seite 82von Edmund Burke - 1898 - 712 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 Seiten
...Beaconsfield Church, beside the dust of his darling Kichard. MARIE ANTOINETTE. (FROM THE "FRENCH REVOLUTION.") It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 Seiten
...from that single speech, be culled and collected. V.—BUBKE'S PANEGYBIC OH MABIE ANTOINETTE. (BURKE.) IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 Seiten
...residence of an inviolable justice." SELECT PASSAGES FROM BURKE'S PAMPHLET ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 382 Seiten
...orators, a friend to liberty, but the avowed foe of the French Revolution and its sanguinary leaders.] IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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... | |
 | Don H. Bialostosky - 1992 - 336 Seiten
...that, like her, she has lofty sentiments; that she feels with the dignity of a Roman matron ; that in the last extremity she will save herself from the...that if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand.10 That is Edmund Burke's description of Marie Antoinette in captivity. His emphasis on the traditional... | |
 | Linda Colley - 2005 - 452 Seiten
...from their clutches to seek refuge, as a proper woman should, 'at the feet of a king and husband": It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France . . . and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch a more delightful vision... | |
 | Judith Pascoe - 1997 - 284 Seiten
...of his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke recalls his encounter with the queen in 1773: "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw...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... | |
 | David Duff - 1994 - 304 Seiten
...the hands of the revolutionaries with his 'delightful vision' of her during his last visit to France: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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... | |
 | Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli - 1994 - 236 Seiten
...1789 visto of the "furies of hell" into the reassuring 1774 visto of the dauphiness at Versailles. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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... | |
 | Philip Mooney - 1994 - 182 Seiten
..."Private Gar" summons the poetic lines that symbolize total belonging for him: "It is now 16 or 17 years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles." But his very love for her keeps him from speaking his feelings. His beloved Kathleen has chosen another... | |
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