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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. "
From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from ... - Page 285
by Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 317 pages
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The British review and London critical journal

1820 - 524 pages
...her shoulders, and bear her aloft upon the ambient ether. It is thus that for some time we see her " glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." And then anon, " oh, what a revolution !" a fatal passion seizes her ; the graces and the muses gradually...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 82, Part 1; Volume 111

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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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain ...

Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pages
...ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Uauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb,...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. ] saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move...
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O'Donnel: A National Tale, Volume 3

Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1814 - 362 pages
...with emotion, " when she first rose above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." " And little," said O'Donnel, catching the enthusiasm, " did we then dream that we should have lived...
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The Heroine, Or, Adventures of Cherubina

Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1815 - 724 pages
...blotted it out for ever. TIUSTHAM SUANDY. Page 116. — Surely never lighted on this orb, Sfc. — ' And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more de. lightful vision.' Page 118.— Seizing my hand, Sfc. — ' He gently seized her hand, and carried...
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O'Donnel: A National Tale, Volume 3

Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1815 - 364 pages
...emotion, " when she first rose above the horizon, decorating and cheering the {elevated sphere she began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." " And little," said O'Donnel, catching the enthusiasm, " did we then dream that...
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Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, Part 1

William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1817 - 898 pages
...contempt and hatred of each other; and insinuating the poison of infidelity through the unsuspecting 1 " Surely never lighted on this orb. which she hardly seemed to touch, a moie delightful vision. I saw her just above the horiMn, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere...
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Rambles in Italy: In the Years 1816....17

James Sloan, Theodore Lyman - 1818 - 406 pages
...I had seen at the Thuilleries, enthroned with Napoleon and dispensing smiles to admiring crowds, " decorating and cheering " the elevated sphere she...in, glittering like the morning star full of "life, of splendour and jo}." The Emperour arrived on the thirtieth of April. It is an dd custom at Trieste...
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Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with ...

Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...DESCRIPTION OF THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. 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 splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...ANTOINETTE, THE LATE QUEEN OF FRANCE. 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 began to move in, glittering like the morning star ; full of life, and splendour, and joy....
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