 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 352 Seiten
...Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles : and surely never lighted on this orb, which it hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision....decorating and cheering the elevated sphere, she just hegantomove in: glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy. Oh ! what a revolution!... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 Seiten
...Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles : and surely never lighted on this orb, which it hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just ahove the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere, she just began to move in : glittering... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 Seiten
...his folly. 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,...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 Seiten
...BURKE. 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,...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 I have,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 Seiten
...FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphincss, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb,...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 I have to... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - 588 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1830 - 408 Seiten
...sixteen or seventeen years," he observes,* " since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb,...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 - 364 Seiten
...the 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 orb'd moon shone with uncommon splendor. 'Till that a capable... | |
 | 1832 - 600 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful passage, the force of early impressions is clearly... | |
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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. 
