 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 488 sider
...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...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour." In this beautiful... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 360 sider
...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 sider
...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 - 1834 - 188 sider
...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 - 1834 - 648 sider
...save herself from the last disgrace ; ini that, if she must fall, she will fall by no igaobfe hand. y by distance will continue. " Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, and mak dauphin»*, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on the orb, which she hardly seemed to touch,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 sider
...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 just began to move in, — glittering like the morning star ; full of life, and splendour, and joy.... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 sider
...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...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in :—glittering, like the morning star ; full of life, and splendor, and joy.... | |
 | 1836 - 432 sider
...figure is a portrait of the fascinating Queen herself, sculptured at the very time when, as Burke says " never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delighftul vision." This, like the former statue, is devoid of drapery. The position of the body, and... | |
 | 1837 - 186 sider
...young man to whom I have awarded the first place, explained promptly and accurately the expressions ' 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 to move in,' ' enthusiastic, distant,... | |
 | 346 sider
...writers. Speaking of Marie Antoinette, this elegant author says, ' Surely never lighted on this orh, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...horizon decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.' By... | |
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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. 
