 | John Cumming - 1848 - 558 pages
...apostrophe of Burke : " It is now sixteen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness of Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb,...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy. Oh... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - 1848 - 370 pages
...Antoinette, who was that year described by Burke as " decorating the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." The Duke of Chartres professed the deepest * See Frontispiece. t The Home of Orleans. Note A. gratitude... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1849 - 708 pages
..." It is now," says 12. Mr Burke, in a passage which will live as long as the " English language, " sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of...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,... | |
 | Srinivas Aravamudan - 1999 - 444 pages
...full of life and splendor and joy." With a delicate pun that conflates earth and eye, Burke avers, "surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision" (8:126).72 Word for word, this image is a reversal of the horror felt by Cheselden's boy at the sight... | |
 | Joseph O'Neill - 2000 - 272 pages
...France, then the Dauphiness of Versailles, and surely, never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her...decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had begun to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy—Oh what a... | |
 | Steve Martinot - 2001 - 382 pages
...of France ("then the dauphiness"), as she "lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch": I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. . .... | |
 | Kathleen Krull - 2014 - 104 pages
...political duty, and urged the dismissal of ministers who disapproved. tl\ A visitor described Marie as "glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy." A glamorous risk taker, she increasingly set the cultural style in France, and her influence spread... | |
 | Norma Thompson - 2008 - 256 pages
...to resituate a people, once the historical moment has passed. His famous passage begins thus: "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh!... | |
 | Julia Swindells - 2001 - 234 pages
...and the trope of sensibility pervade his conceptuali2ation of histotical and political events: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen...to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just ahove the hoti2on, decorating and cheeting the elevated sphere she just hegan to move in—glitteting... | |
 | Steve Martinot - 2001 - 382 pages
...touch": I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. . . . Little did I 46 dream . . . that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against... | |
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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. 
