 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - 1857 - 364 pages
...sixteen or seventeen years since I first saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and, surely, never lighted on this orb> which she hardly seemed to touchy a more delightful vision" The first part of this sentence merely informs us of the time and... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...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 cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pages
...England. IT is now some 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 cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | H. O. Apthorp - 1858 - 312 pages
...rules are given here as preparations for reading correctly the following promiscuous sentences:— And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. The evening was fine, and the full orh'd moon shone with uncommon splendor. Till that a capable and... | |
 | David V. Erdman - 1991 - 628 pages
...ironic manner which historians of painting call witty quotation. Burke having said of Marie Antoinette, "surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision," Blake exclaims: "The Queen of France just touched this Globe And the Pestilence darted from her robe."... | |
 | Linda Colley - 2005 - 452 pages
...of a king and husband": It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France . . . and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch a more delightful vision . . . glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. . . Little did I dream... | |
 | Judith Pascoe - 1997 - 284 pages
...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 cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | Audrey Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, Esther H. Schor - 1993 - 312 pages
...ed. JT Boulton [Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1958], 114). On Marie Antoinette: ". . . 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 cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | David Duff - 1994 - 304 pages
...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 cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli - 1994 - 236 pages
...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 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. 
