 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. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 3891812Full view - About this book
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...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....cheering the elevated 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... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - 1845 - 404 pages
...France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her...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 ! and... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - 1845 - 188 pages
...France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles: and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision ! I saw...cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Little did I dream I should... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1845 - 510 pages
...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....and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to imove in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour 'and joy." J All his* writings,... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...Fra'nce, then the daup'hiness, at Versai'lles ; and surely never ligh'ted on this o'rb (which sh'e hardly seemed to touch) a more delig'htful vi'sion...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,... | |
 | Louis Adolphe Thiers - 1845 - 470 pages
...years since I saw the Queen of France at Vei sailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision!...just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the ein vated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour,... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 pages
...lighted on this orb, which she 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 she just began to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy ! Oh ! what a revolution !... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating and 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 !... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1846 - 398 pages
...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....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 !... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1846 - 598 pages
...the quotation from Burke, to which they refer : — " And surely never lighted on Ms orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision....cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and juy." The sentence is truly harmonious,... | |
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