 | Archibald Alison - 1849 - 708 pages
...live as long as the " English language, " sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...setting out on the highway of heaven, " decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just begins to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and joy," 15 shall she be supposed to be polluting and corroding her noble and happy heart, by moping over... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...death. VII. — MAU1E ANTOINETTE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh 1 what a revolution ! and what a heart must... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1999 - 484 pages
...presented her in the Reflections. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution!... | |
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 pages
...the excesses of the Revolution. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never...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... | |
 | Srinivas Aravamudan - 1999 - 444 pages
...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... | |
 | Emma Clery, Robert Miles - 2000 - 322 pages
...good as could be wished. . . . It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never...sphere she just began to move in, - glittering like the morningstar, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what a heart must I have... | |
 | Steve Martinot - 2001 - 382 pages
...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 morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. . . . Little did I dream . . . that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against... | |
 | Joseph O'Neill - 2000 - 272 pages
...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...horizon 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... | |
 | Kathleen Krull - 2014 - 104 pages
...political duty, and urged the dismissal of ministers who disapproved. tl\ A visitor described Marie as "glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy." A glamorous risk taker, she increasingly set the cultural style in France, and her influence spread... | |
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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. 
