 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 Seiten
...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...glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 Seiten
...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...she just began to move in: — glittering, like the morning star; full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! — and what a heart must... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 Seiten
...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,...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - 588 Seiten
...passes it : ' And surely never lighted on this orb, which she ' hardly seemed to touch, a more delighful vision. ' I saw her just above the horizon, decorating...glittering like the morning-star, full of ' life, and splendour, and joy.' (Ibid.) All his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples of... | |
 | 1830 - 408 Seiten
...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!... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1830 - 364 Seiten
...the foregoing tables ; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orb'd moon shone with uncommon splendor. 'Till that a capable... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 488 Seiten
...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...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful passage, the force of early impressions... | |
 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 484 Seiten
...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...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like Ihe morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful passage, the force of early impressions... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 360 Seiten
...the foregoing tables ; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orUd moon shone with uncommon splendor. Till that a capable... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 356 Seiten
...the foregoing tables; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orVd moon shone with uncommon splendor. 'Till that a capable... | |
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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. 
