 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1832 - 356 pages
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1834 - 188 pages
...custom,) to his BED-CHAMBER, WHERE, (it is recorded,) he SLEPT QUIETLY for about a quarter of an hour.' ' It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I SAW the...QUEEN of FRANCE, (then the Dauphiness) at VERSAILLES.' ' He REFUSED, (saying,) NO, NO, THAT will NOT HELP me.' 'The MISERABLE INHABITANTS, (flyingfrom their... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...save herself from the last disgrace ; and that, if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. ix. No. 2Э. Apbut it was a people in beggary ; it...together, these creatures of sufferance, whose very Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...villany, and whoever may partake of the plunder. VII. APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE.—Burke. SIR, it is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...:—glittering, like the morning star ; full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution!—and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion... | |
 | Adolphe Thiers - France - 1838 - 454 pages
...Alison's French Revolution. E. f " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb,...morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." — Burke's Reflections. E. J " Turgot, of whom Malesherbes said ' He has the head of Bacon and the... | |
 | Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers - 1838 - 448 pages
...French Revolution. E. •}, " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb,...morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." — Burke's Reflections. E. J " Turgot, of whom Malesherbes said ' He has the head of Bacon and the... | |
 | Fashion - 346 pages
...writers. Speaking of Marie Antoinette, this elegant author says, ' Surely never lighted on this orh, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.' By the syren voice of such a being, were the better feelings of the unfortunate Louis ever subdued... | |
 | United States - 1850 - 616 pages
...seamed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above tho horizon, decorating and cheering ths elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star; full, of life, and splendor, and joy." This brilliant being, the admired of all beholders — possessed of power, a throne,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 546 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - France - 1839 - 476 pages
...celebrated comparison of the Queen of France, though going to the verge of chaste style, hardly passes it. " And surely, never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy."f All his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples of the abuse of this style,... | |
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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... 
