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... English Prose (1137-1890) - Página 274editado por - 1909 - 544 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 páginas
...pitch by the misfortunes of its object. ' It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Oueen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and...she just 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... | |
| 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,...she just 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,... | |
| 1810 - 702 páginas
...Burke's use of this figure in his celebrated description of the queen of France is of a similar nature: " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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,... | |
| 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...she just began to move in — ' glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, ' and joy.' — (Ibid.) AH his writings, but especially... | |
| Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 páginas
...within it which possesses mine : " It is now," said the immortal Burke, in 1790, "sixteen or eighteen years since I saw the " Queen of France, then the...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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 páginas
...to say it, very sorry indeed, that such personages are in a situation in which it is- not becoming in us to praise the virtues of the great. I hear,...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
...deposited, and consumed in the same manner. Mr. Burke's animated description of the late Queen . of France. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...she just 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... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 páginas
...conquer —or die ! . SECTION II. Eulogium of Antoinette, the late Queen of France. IT is now sixteen-or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then...-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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1815 - 464 páginas
...fall, she will fail by no ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the the qgeen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and...glittering like the morning-star, full • of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without... | |
| Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 páginas
...as the Duke of Bedford would have it, from an unworthy parent. DESCRIPTION OF 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 an heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
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