 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...he was not descended, as the Duke of Bedford would have it, from an unworthy parent. DESCRIPTION OF THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen...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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...us fight for our liberties — let us conquer, or die ! Section II. EULOGIUM OF ANTOINETTE, THE LATE QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years...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.... | |
 | 1821 - 362 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...what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall ! Little did I dream, that when she added... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pages
...since I saw the Queen of France, then the Daupluness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted upon this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and of joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...of France, then Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her...she just began to move in — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, splendour, and joy. Oh, what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have,... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...urge me rather to save the man, than to preserve his brazen slippers as the monuments of his folly. 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 splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...protect the villany, and whoever may partake of the plunder. APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. BURKE. IT is now, sixteen or seventeen years since I saw...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 pages
...FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphincss, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb,...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... | |
 | 1830 - 408 pages
...strictly applicable to what I beheld in her. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years," he observes,* " since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness,...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. Oh!... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 488 pages
...reader of Edmund Burke's* celebrated description of the Queen of the unfortunate Lewis XVI. of France, " Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful passage, the force of early impressions is clearly shown. Beauty in our... | |
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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... 
