 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 páginas
...shrinks in the midst of hia journey. XXIV.— EULOGIDM ON MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE.— JBurte. 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 fall! Little did I dream... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...depression, and distress—I will call to mind this accusation ; and be comforted. THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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 emotion... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...Maria. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.* EDMUND BURKE. 1730-1797. On the French Revolution. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 páginas
...Burke. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the Dauphiness of Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb,...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oil ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contempjate, without... | |
 | Richard Greene Parker - 1857 - 152 páginas
...bless his name to the latest posterity !—Washington Irving. APOSTUOPHE TO THE QOEEN OF FRANCE. 783. 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 fall. 784. Little did... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 páginas
...of general justice and benevolence too far ; further than a cautious policy ' THE lit'KKN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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 emotion... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 398 páginas
...enjoyed at this propitious period. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years," says this eloquent writer, " since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness,...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy ! I thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge... | |
 | 1873 - 794 páginas
...recollections of that happy time lingered in his memory. " It is now," he wrote in his Reflections, " sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated -sphere she had just begun to move in, — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy.... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 544 páginas
...Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delighted vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating...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,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 páginas
...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...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,... | |
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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... 
