 | Benjamin Perley Poore - 1848 - 370 pagina’s
...Antoinette, who was that year described by Burke as " decorating the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." The Duke of Chartres professed the deepest * See Frontispiece. t The Home of Orleans.... | |
 | 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...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. Oh ! what... | |
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 pagina’s
...beheading of Queen Marie Antoinette, Burke became an outspoken critic of the excesses of the Revolution. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...glittering like the morning star full of life and splendor and joy. O, what a revolution! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | Srinivas Aravamudan - 1999 - 444 pagina’s
...full of life and splendor and joy." With a delicate pun that conflates earth and eye, Burke avers, "surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision" (8:126).72 Word for word, this image is a reversal of the horror felt by Cheselden's boy at the sight... | |
 | Joseph O'Neill - 2000 - 272 pagina’s
...France, then the Dauphiness of Versailles, and surely, never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her...decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had begun to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy—Oh what a... | |
 | Steve Martinot - 2001 - 382 pagina’s
...of France ("then the dauphiness"), as she "lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch": 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 splendor and joy. . .... | |
 | Norma Thompson - 2008 - 256 pagina’s
...exists to resituate a people, once the historical moment has passed. His famous passage begins thus: "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh!... | |
 | Julia Swindells - 2001 - 234 pagina’s
...theatticality and the trope of sensibility pervade his conceptuali2ation of histotical and political events: It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just ahove the hoti2on, decorating and cheeting the elevated sphere she just hegan to move in—glitteting... | |
 | Richard J. Finneran - 2001 - 314 pagina’s
...13,588 [14], 4r) Burke, referring to Marie Antoinette in Reflections on the French Revolution, states: 1 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. Oh!... | |
 | Steve Martinot - 2001 - 382 pagina’s
...touch": 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 splendor and joy. . . . Little did I 46 dream . . . that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp... | |
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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... 
