 | Fashion - 346 pages
...writers. Speaking of Marie Antoinette, this elegant author says, ' Surely never lighted on this orh, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.' By the syren voice of such a being, were the better... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 546 pages
...save herself from the last disgrace ; and that, if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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 emotion... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - France - 1839 - 476 pages
...celebrated 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...she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy."f All his writings, but especially his later ones,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1839 - 434 pages
...celebrated 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...her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering Hie elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...rank and race, and becoming the offspring of a Sovereign distinguished for her piety and courage. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...rank and race, and becoming the offspring of a Sovereign distinguished for her piety and courage. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 702 pages
...subjected, and the daily insults they were doomed to undergo, and burst into an impassioned exclamation. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...I " saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheer" ing the elevated sphere she just began to move in, " glittering like the morning star, full... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 738 pages
...subjected, and the daily insults they were doomed to undergo, and burst into an impassioned exclamation. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...I " saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheer" ing the elevated sphere she just began to move in, " glittering like the morning star, full... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...And laid my hand upon thy mane' — | as I do here,. | APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. (BURKE.) It is now sixteen, or seventeen years', | since I...more delightful vis.ion. | I saw her just above the horrzon, | decorating, and cheering the elevated sphere , | she just began to move, in — glittering... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1842 - 360 pages
...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,...she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy."* All his writings, but especially his later ones,... | |
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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. 
