 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
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...and surely || n ever lighted on this orb , which she hardly || seemed to touch, a more delight fu 1 vision. I saw her || just above the horizon , \ decorating...\\ the elevated sphere she just began to move in;\ glittering || like the morning star; full || of life and splendor and joy. Oh ! || whatarevolution!\... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 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 splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 348 pages
...years, since I saw the Queen of France 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 splendour, and joy. Ah, what a revolution ! and... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 396 pages
...Queen of Prance, 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 !... | |
 | 1877 - 226 pages
...fashion. She won the ardent admiration of Burke, who wrote: "Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizjn, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 344 pages
...infinity, a more delightful vision. I with a certain and silent mosaw her just above the hori- tion. zon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Ah, what a revolution ! and... | |
 | John Cumming - 1848 - 558 pages
...Queen of France, then the Dauphiness of 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 splendour and joy. Oh what a revolution! and... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1849 - 708 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....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. Oh... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 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....horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just began to move in, glittering like the morning star ; full of life, and splendor, and joy.... | |
 | Benjamin Cowell - 1850 - 364 pages
...was born Nov. 2, 1765— married in May, 1770— was beheaded Oct. 25, 1793. 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... | |
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