 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.  A First English Grammar - Page 80by Alexander Bain - 1872 - 186 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pages
...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 cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning * State Trials, vol. ii. p. 360, 363. star, .full of life, and splendour,... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...sixteen or Seventeen years since I saw the Oueen 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. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...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 cheering the eleyated sphere she just began to moves... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...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 pages
...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 seemed to touch, a more ' delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating < and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
..."sixteen or eighteen 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 cheering the ele" vated sphere she just began... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
..."sixteen or eighteen 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 cheering the elc" vated sphere she just... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...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 cheering the elevated sphere she just began tomove in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...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 cheering the elevated sphere she had just began... | |
 | Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...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 cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
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