 | George Washington Burnap - 1845 - 404 pagina’s
...AND PITT, COMPARED WITH extract, as a characteristic specimen, both of his written and spoken style. "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw...; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and... | |
 | Louis Adolphe Thiers - 1845 - 470 pagina’s
...Revolution. E. * " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Vei sailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the ein vated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour,... | |
 | 1877 - 226 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
..." 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... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pagina’s
...her, she has lofty sentiments ; that she feels with the dignity of a Roman matron ; that in the last extremity she will save herself from the last disgrace...if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. Rtflectwns on the French Revolution. Iv. Indeed, when I consider the face of the kingdom of France... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pagina’s
...now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ;l and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pagina’s
...contempt. [ifaru Antoinette, Queen of France.'] [Tram ' Reflections on the Revolution in France.'] ame-footed ceerned to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pagina’s
...will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted. 63. MARIE ANTOINETTE, 1790.i — Edmund Burke. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, deeorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pagina’s
...extremity she will save herself from the last disgrace ; and that, if she must fall, she will "all by no ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating nnd cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
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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. 
