 | James Hardiman - 1831 - 488 pages
...reader of Edmund Burke's* celebrated description of the Queen of the unfortunate Lewis XVI. of France, " 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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 356 pages
...muz-zl'd'st. spa-sm, spa-5m*. prison, impri-son'rf, pri-sons, im\>Ti-sori'st, immi-son'd'st. fet-cAW. Before the student proceeds to reading and declamation,...'Till that a capable and wide revenge swallow them up. Shakspeare. He was incapable of a mean or unquestionable action. He was amiable,* respectable, formidable,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 360 pages
...muz-zl'd'st. spa-*m, spa-*ms. pri-son, impri-son'd, pri-^on*, inipri-son'st, impri-son'd'st. fet-cA'rf. Before the student proceeds to reading and declamation,...delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orUd moon shone with uncommon splendor. Till that a capable and wide revenge swallow them up. * Shakspeare.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; r months together, these creatures of sufferance, whose very I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 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... | |
 | 1836 - 432 pages
...figure is a portrait of the fascinating Queen herself, sculptured at the very time when, as Burke says " never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delighftul vision." This, like the former statue, is devoid of drapery. The position of the body, and... | |
 | 1837 - 186 pages
...young man to whom I have awarded the first place, explained promptly and accurately the expressions ' surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision,'' ' decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,' ' enthusiastic, distant,... | |
 | Adolphe Thiers - 1838 - 454 pages
...Revolution. E. f " It is now sixteen or seventeen 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 ! I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers - 1838 - 448 pages
...Revolution. E. •}, " It is now sixteen or seventeen 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 ! I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 476 pages
...celebrated comparison of the Queen of France, though going 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. 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. 
