 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 548 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 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 had just begun to... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 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 had just begun to... | |
 | William Smyth - 1840 - 446 pages
...to be the idol of the court of a great monarch, a model of elegance and grace : " never lighted upon this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision." How, indeed, she deported herself at all times, in the gay hours of her prosperity, it may now be impossible... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...or seventeen years', | since I saw the queen of France, | then the dauphiness, | at Versailles' ; | and surely, never lighted on this , orb, | (which...hardly seemed to touch) a more delightful vis.ion. | I saw her just above the horrzon, | decorating, and cheering the elevated sphere , | she just began... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 702 pages
...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 cheer" ing the elevated sphere she just began to... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 738 pages
...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 cheer" ing the elevated sphere she just began to... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1842 - 360 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 468 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 had just begun to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphmesa, at Versailles ; ears, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your do 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. 
