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... The Romantic Age in Prose: An Anthology - Página 23editado por - 1980 - 159 páginasVista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 páginas
...misfortunes of its object. ' It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Oueen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never...began to move in, — glittering like the morning * State Trials, vol. ii. p. 360, 363. star, .full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution... | |
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 páginas
...\ ' It is now sixteen or Seventeen years since I saw the Oueen of France, then the Dan^>* phiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb,...began to move in, — glittering like the morning * State Trials, vol. ii, p. 360, 363. star, full of life, and splendour, add joy. Oh ! what, a revolution... | |
| 1810 - 702 páginas
...France is of a similar nature: " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles: and surely never...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the eleyated sphere she just began to moves in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor,... | |
| 1809 - 572 páginas
...curiosity to see the royal family and particularly the queen, who was then, as Mr. Burke describes her, just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she was beginning to move in — a sad change has taken place; the pomp of royalty is fled, and all is... | |
| 1827 - 698 páginas
...celebrated comparison of the Queen of France, though going to the verge of chaste style, hardly passes it. ' And surely, never ' lighted on this orb, which she...morning star, full of life, and splendour, ' and joy.' — (Ibid.) AH his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples of the abuse of this... | |
| Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 páginas
...now," said the immortal Burke, in 1790, "sixteen or eighteen years since I saw the " Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at " Versailles; and surely never...just above " the horizon, decorating and cheering the ele" vated sphere she just began to move in — glit" tering like the morning star, full of life, and... | |
| Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 páginas
...now," said the immortal Burke, in 1790, "sixteen or eighteen years since I saw the " Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at " Versailles; and surely never...which she hardly seemed to touch, a " more delightful vision—I saw her just above " the horizon, decorating and cheering the elc" vated sphere she just... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 páginas
...will fall by no ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never...decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began tomove in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a... | |
| 1811 - 386 páginas
...of the late Queen . of France. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never...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,... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 páginas
...Antoinette, the late Queen of France. IT is now sixteen-or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles } and surely never...-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... | |
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