 | Judith Page Walker Rives - Europe - 1842 - 328 pages
...being safe "beneath the shadow of his wing." SURPRISES. ' Behold a man much wronged." COM. OF ERRORS. " I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy." BURKE. UNCONSCIOUS of the events that were occurring... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 468 pages
...reader, on perusing such details, is not reminded of the impassioned outburst of the eloquent Burke : " 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.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...of France.} [From • R*ueotioni on the Revolution In France.'] It ie now sixteen or seventeen yean so c".0c".`J!. morning star full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...France.'] It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphmesa, little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since...pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is morning star full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I... | |
 | 1844 - 778 pages
...Revolution; and the quotaBURKE. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb,...seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her juat above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...pardon something to the spirit of liberty. LESSON CLXVII. Apostrophe to the Queen of France. BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...sphere she just began to move in; glittering like the morning star; full of life, and splendor, and joy. O, what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have,... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...collec'ted. EULOGIUM ON MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seVenteen-years/ since I saw the Queen of Fra'nce, then the daup'hiness,...de'corating and che'ering the elevated sph'ere/ she had just begun to move i'n, — glit'tering like the morning-sta'r ; full of life, and sple'ndour,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 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...sphere she just began to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy,'"10 — Pp. 175 — 180. <*•'• " It is another... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1846 - 606 pages
...writing of these words, I come unexpectedly to the quotation from Burke, to which they refer : — " And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." The sentence is truly harmonious, and the images... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 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...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. OF EDMUND BURKE. 149 I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere... | |
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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. 
