 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...  Tales and Souvenirs of a Residence in Europe - Page 84by Judith Page Walker Rives - 1842 - 301 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pages
...; 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 cheering...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... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...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 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...; 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 cheering the elevated sphere she just began tomove in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a... | |
 | Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...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 cheering...morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion, that elevation... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...} 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 cheering the elevated sphere she had just began to move in,— —glittering like the morning star ; full of life, and splendor, and... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1812 - 778 pages
...and surely never alighted on this orb, which site hardly seemed to touch, a more DELIGHTFUL VISION. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, — if littering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." - - " tittle did I dream... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. ] saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...sphere she just began to move in; glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Ireland - 1814 - 362 pages
...with emotion, " when she first rose above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." " And little," said O'Donnel, catching the enthusiasm, " did we then dream that... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1815 - 364 pages
...emotion, " when she first rose above the horizon, decorating and cheering the {elevated sphere she began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." " And little," said O'Donnel, catching the enthusiasm, " did we then dream that we should have lived... | |
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