 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - 1889 - 432 pagina’s
...Burke's apostrophe to the Queen of France : — " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I first saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles,...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision." The first part of this sentence merely informs us of the time and place at which he had seen the queen,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1896 - 354 pagina’s
...Frederic the Great ; and Marie Antoinette ought always to be associated with the great words of Burke : "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw wisest and gentlest of her sex, it would not have been possible for her to have regarded the French... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1898 - 478 pagina’s
...like her she has lofty sentiments; that she feels with the dignity of a Roman matron; tha; in the last extremity she will save herself from the last disgrace,...France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely rtn-fT lifhtnd nn thin nrh,, which she hardly seemed to touch, a mnr" flflightful Y*8Jnn— I saw her... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 544 pagina’s
...execution. He rejoices to hear that "she feels with the dignity of a Roman matron ; that in the last extremity she will save herself from the last disgrace...she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand." MARIE ANTOINETTE OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then... | |
 | Harry Cassell Davis, John Cloyse Bridgman - 1899 - 390 pagina’s
...Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI., was put to death by order of the Revolutionary Tribunal, October 16, 1793.. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. Oh !... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 468 pagina’s
...accusation, and be comforted. MARIE ANTOINETTE (Born, 1755; beheaded, 1793. Burke saw her in 1773) IT 1s now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like the morning star full of life and splendor and joy. O, what... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1901 - 458 pagina’s
...accusation, and be comforted. MARIE ANTOINETTE (Born, 1755; beheaded, 1793. Burke saw her In 1773) IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. O,... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1902 - 474 pagina’s
...wielders of the English language. MARIE ANTOINETTE. (From his "Reflections on the Revolution in France.") IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life, of splendor, and joy. Oh... | |
 | William Peacock - 1903 - 408 pagina’s
...of the human race. —Speech on Conciliation with America. MARIE ANTOINETTE AND THE AGE OF CHIVALRY It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just hegan to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1902 - 714 pagina’s
...following memorable description of the unhappy victim, in tones of the deepest emotional earnestness.] It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. O,... | |
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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. 
