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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. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and... "
The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 389
1812
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The advanced prose and poetical reader, by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 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...
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Elocution Made Easy, Containing Rules and Selections for Declamation and Reading

Rufus Claggett - 1855 - 208 pages
...Queen of France, then the Dauphiness,* at Versailles; ajid 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...
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Apocalyptic Sketches: Lectures on the Book of Revelation ; First ..., Volume 2

John Cumming - 1855 - 522 pages
...France, then the dauphiness of Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly scemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and chcering the elevated sphere she just began to move in—glittering like the morning star, full of...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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....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...
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A Collection of Familiar Quotations: With Complete Indices of Authors and ...

John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 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 Little did I dream that I should...
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Self-culture in Reading, Speaking, and Conversation: Designed for the Use of ...

William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 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 splendor, and joy. Oil ! what a revolution...
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Progressive Exercises in Rhetorical Reading ...

Richard Greene Parker - 1857 - 152 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 ! and...
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Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s ...

Claudia L. Johnson - 2009 - 256 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! and...
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Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s ...

Claudia L. Johnson - 2009 - 256 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!...
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The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction

Barbara Claire Freeman - 2023 - 220 pages
..."sixteen or seventeen years" earlier, he remarked that he had never seen "a more delightful vision . . . above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy" (66). For Burke, Marie Antoinette...
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