 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...the iron hand of oppression, and the insolent spurn of contempt. MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in—glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution... | |
 | John Cumming - 1851 - 592 pages
...apostrophe of Burke : "It is now sixteen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness of Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb,...she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy. Oh what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ;l and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...contempt. [ifaru Antoinette, Queen of France.'] [Tram ' Reflections on the Revolution in France.'] ame-footed ceerned to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 608 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...morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...promise himself; and he that expects least, sometimes attains. Sir H. Wotton. XXVIII. JWarie antohwtte. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...morningstar, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted. 63. MARIE ANTOINETTE, 1790.* — Edmund Burke. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. 0 ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted. 63. MARIE ANTOINETTE, 1790.* — Edmund Burke. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. 0 ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted. 63. MARIE ANTOINETTE, 1790.i — Edmund Burke. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, deeorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...save herself from the last disgrace ; and that, if she must fall, she will "all by no ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating nnd cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
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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. 
