 | Bernard Burke - Heraldry - 1850 - 630 pages
...Burke saw her at Versailles ; his well-known brilliant description of her, is familiar to all — " Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I sawherjustabovethehorizon,decoratingand cheering theelevated sphere she just began to move in ; glittering... | |
 | Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl - France - 1850 - 916 pages
...touch, amore delightful visioni i saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elft valed sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, fall of life, and splendour, and joy."—Burke's Reflections. E. infili of lettera, men o fletterà... | |
 | David Bromwich - Literary Collections - 1999 - 484 pages
...presented her in the Reflections. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution!... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...the excesses of the Revolution. 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 begun to move in, glittering like the morning star full of life and splendor and joy. O, what... | |
 | Srinivas Aravamudan - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 444 pages
...full of life and splendor and joy." With a delicate pun that conflates earth and eye, Burke avers, "surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision" (8:126).72 Word for word, this image is a reversal of the horror felt by Cheselden's boy at the sight... | |
 | Emma Clery, Robert Miles - Fiction - 2000 - 322 pages
...good as could be wished. . . . It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never...sphere she just began to move in, - glittering like the morningstar, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what a heart must I have... | |
 | Steve Martinot - Literary Criticism & Collections - 2001 - 382 pages
...of France ("then the dauphiness"), as she "lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch": I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. . . . Little did I dream . . . that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp... | |
 | Joseph O'Neill - Fiction - 2000 - 272 pages
...France, then the Dauphiness of Versailles, and surely, never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her...horizon decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had begun to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy—Oh what... | |
 | Norma Thompson - Political Science - 2008 - 256 pages
...famous passage begins thus: "It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! What a revolution!" (66). With this exclamation, Burke's letter shifts from... | |
 | Richard J. Finneran - 2001 - 314 pages
...13,588 [14], 4r) Burke, referring to Marie Antoinette in Reflections on the French Revolution, states: 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...joy. Oh! What a revolution! And what a heart must 1 have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and thatfall!I2 The contemplation of a dramatic... | |
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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. 
