 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 ページ
...to describe the lessons and subjects of study for the Junior and Senior classes. QUEEN ANTOINETTE. It is now || sixteen or seventeen years, \ since I...|| then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ;\ and surely || n ever lighted on this orb , which she hardly || seemed to touch, a more delight fu 1 vision. I... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 400 ページ
...admiration and love, or will read her history without sorrow." MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OP LOUIS XVI. BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate, without emotion, that elevation and that... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 ページ
...should resound throughout the universe. LESSON XXXVIII. Apostrophe to the Queen of France. — BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 396 ページ
...ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF LOUIS XVI. BOHKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of Prance, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never...star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must 1 have to contemplate, without emotion, that elevation and that... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 348 ページ
...God, she had a strange BURKE. It is now sixteen, or seventeen years, since I saw the Queen of France at Versailles ; and surely, never lighted on this...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Ah, what a revolution ! and what a heart must I... | |
 | 1877 - 226 ページ
...patron of Gluck, and brought his music into fashion. She won the ardent admiration of Burke, who wrote: "Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizjn, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the... | |
 | John Cumming - 1848 - 558 ページ
...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,...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... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - 1848 - 400 ページ
...Louis XVI., and the unfortunate Marie Antoinette, who was that year described by Burke as " decorating the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering...morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." The Duke of Chartres professed the deepest * See Frontispiece. t The House of Orleans. Note A. gratitude... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 ページ
...that should resound through the universe. ROBERTSON. EULOGIUM OF ANTOINETTE, THE LATE QUEEN OF FRANCE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw 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 joy.... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1849 - 708 ページ
..." 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...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy. Oh... | |
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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... 
