 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...  The Standard Fourth Reader - Pàgina 264per Epes Sargent - 1874Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pàgines
...of France, then the Dan^>* phiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision....began to move in, — glittering like the morning * State Trials, vol. ii, p. 360, 363. star, full of life, and splendour, add joy. Oh ! what, a revolution... | |
 | 1810 - 702 pàgines
...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....just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the eleyated sphere she just began to moves in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor,... | |
 | 1809 - 572 pàgines
...curiosity to see the royal family and particularly the queen, who was then, as Mr. Burke describes her, just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she was beginning to move in — a sad change has taken place; the pomp of royalty is fled, and all is... | |
 | 1827 - 698 pàgines
...to the verge of chaste style, hardly passes it. ' And surely, never ' lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more ' delightful vision....glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, ' and joy.' — (Ibid.) AH his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pàgines
...France, then the Dauphiness, at " Versailles; and surely never lighted on this '• orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a " more delightful vision...just above " the horizon, decorating and cheering the ele" vated sphere she just began to move in — glit" tering like the morning star, full of life, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pàgines
...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....decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began tomove in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a... | |
 | 1811 - 386 pàgines
...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....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,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pàgines
...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....-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... | |
 | 1820 - 524 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1812 - 778 pàgines
...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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