 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - 588 pagina’s
...passes it : ' And surely never lighted on this orb, which she ' hardly seemed to touch, a more delighful vision. ' I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and ' cheering the elevated sphere she just began to ' move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of ' life, and splendour, and joy.'... | |
 | 1830 - 408 pagina’s
...strictly applicable to what I beheld in her. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years," he observes,* " since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness,...decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1830 - 364 pagina’s
...the foregoing tables ; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orb'd moon shone with uncommon splendor. 'Till that a capable... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pagina’s
...desolation, I Marie Antoinette, Queen of fflance. — fflom ' Reflections on the Revolution in France.* ch scene I How often have I paused on every charm ; The sheltered cot, the cul dauphlneae, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which ehe hardly seemed to touch,... | |
 | 1832 - 600 pagina’s
...being who stole me from myself ! Burke's rapture, however, on the queen of France, — ' surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision, — 'would have been quite inapplicable, for touch it she did, and stood firm on it with the help of... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 488 pagina’s
...reader of Edmund Burke's* celebrated description of the Queen of the unfortunate Lewis XVI. of France, " Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 484 pagina’s
...reader of Edmund Burke's* celebrated description of the Queen of the unfortunate Lewis XVI. of France, " Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like Ihe morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 356 pagina’s
...the foregoing tables; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orVd moon shone with uncommon splendor. 'Till that a capable... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 360 pagina’s
...the foregoing tables ; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orUd moon shone with uncommon splendor. Till that a capable... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1834 - 188 pagina’s
...custom,) to his BED-CHAMBER, WHERE, (it is recorded,) he SLEPT QUIETLY for about a quarter of an hour.' ' It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I SAW the...QUEEN of FRANCE, (then the Dauphiness) at VERSAILLES.' ' He REFUSED, (saying,) NO, NO, THAT will NOT HELP me.' 'The MISERABLE INHABITANTS, (flyingfrom their... | |
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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... 
