 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...Seventeen years since I saw the Oueen of France, then the Dan^>* phiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch,...began to move in, — glittering like the morning * State Trials, vol. ii, p. 360, 363. star, full of life, and splendour, add joy. Oh ! what, a revolution... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...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,...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the eleyated sphere she just began to moves in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor,... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...curiosity to see the royal family and particularly the queen, who was then, as Mr. Burke describes her, just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she was beginning to move in — a sad change has taken place; the pomp of royalty is fled, and all is... | |
 | 1827 - 698 pages
...Queen of France, though going to the verge of chaste style, hardly passes it. ' And surely, never ' lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch,...morning star, full of life, and splendour, ' and joy.' — (Ibid.) AH his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples of the abuse of this... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...eighteen years since I saw the " Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at " Versailles; and surely never lighted on this '• orb, which she hardly seemed...just above " the horizon, decorating and cheering the ele" vated sphere she just began to move in — glit" tering like the morning star, full of life, and... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...eighteen 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 cheering the elc" vated sphere she just... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...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,...decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began tomove in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a... | |
 | Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...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,...morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion, that elevation... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...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,...-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... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1812 - 778 pages
...Queen of France, then tlw Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never alighted on this orb, which site hardly seemed to touch, a more DELIGHTFUL VISION....cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, — if littering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." - - " tittle did I dream... | |
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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... 
