 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.  What Men Have Said about Woman ... - Page 30edited by - 1865 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...patron of Gluck, and brought his music into fashion. She won the ardent admiration of Burke, who wrote: "Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizjn, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 344 pages
...infinity, a more delightful vision. I with a certain and silent mosaw her just above the hori- tion. zon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Ah, what a revolution ! and what a heart must I... | |
 | 1847 - 722 pages
...setting out on the highway of heaven, 'decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just begins to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and joy' — shall she be supposed to be polluting and corroding her noble and happy heart, by moping over... | |
 | 1847 - 722 pages
...setting out on the highway of heaven, 'decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just begins to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and joy' — shall she be supposed to be polluting and corroding her noble and happy heart, by moping over... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - France - 1848 - 400 pages
...Louis XVI., and the unfortunate Marie Antoinette, who was that year described by Burke as " decorating the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." The Duke of Chartres professed the deepest * See Frontispiece. t The House of Orleans.... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1849 - 708 pages
...live as long as the " English language, " 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 begun to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy. Oh... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 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 splendor, and joy.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...setting out on the highway of heaven, " decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just begins to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and joy," 15 shall she be supposed to be polluting and corroding her noble and happy heart, by moping over... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...death. VII. — MAU1E ANTOINETTE. 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 splendour, and joy. Oh 1 what a revolution ! and what a heart must... | |
 | Benjamin Cowell - Rhode Island - 1850 - 364 pages
...lighted * Marie Antoinette was born Nov. 2, 1765— married in May, 1770— was beheaded Oct. 25, 1793. on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more...glittering like the morning star — full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! — and what an heart must I have, to contemplate, without... | |
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