 | 1873 - 794 pages
...recollections of that happy time lingered in his memory. " It is now," he wrote in his Reflections, " sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of...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.... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 544 pages
...Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delighted vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating...morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate, without motion, that elevation... | |
 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - 1857 - 378 pages
...of 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,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...the iron hand of oppression, and the insolent spurn of contempt. MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | Claudia L. Johnson - 2009 - 256 pages
...vol. V of the Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen, ed. RW Chapman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982). It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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!... | |
 | Barbara Claire Freeman - 2023 - 220 pages
..."sixteen or seventeen years" earlier, he remarked that he had never seen "a more delightful vision . . . above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated...the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy" (66). For Burke, Marie Antoinette embodied "the glory of Europe . . . extinguished forever," the aristocratic... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 pages
...will save herself from the last disgrace, and that if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...sphere she just began to move in, - glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I... | |
 | David Wootton - 1996 - 964 pages
...will fall by no ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of'France, p ! ! Oh! what a revolution! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 pages
...limbs and mutilated carcasses. Thence they were conducted into the capital of their kingdom. . . . It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...she just began to move in — glittering like the morning-star, full of life and splendor and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I have,... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 476 pages
...will save herself from the last disgrace, and that if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I... | |
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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... 
