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... Robert Southey's Life of Nelson - Página 147por Robert Southey - 1896 - 302 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 páginas
...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...began to move in, — glittering like the morning * State Trials, vol. ii, p. 360, 363. star, full of life, and splendour, add joy. Oh ! what, a revolution... | |
| 1810 - 702 páginas
...saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the eleyated sphere she just began to moves in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution! and what heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and... | |
| 1809 - 572 páginas
...curiosity to see the royal family and particularly the queen, who was then, as Mr. Burke describes her, just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she was beginning to move in — a sad change has taken place; the pomp of royalty is fled, and all is... | |
| 1827 - 698 páginas
...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...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, ' and joy.' — (Ibid.) AH his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 páginas
...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 tomove in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a... | |
| 1811 - 386 páginas
...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...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion,... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 páginas
...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 began to move in,— —glittering like the morning star ; full of life, and splendor, and... | |
| 1820 - 524 páginas
...her shoulders, and bear her aloft upon the ambient ether. It is thus that for some time we see her " glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." And then anon, " oh, what a revolution !" a fatal passion seizes her ; the graces and the muses gradually... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 páginas
...surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. ] saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...sphere she just began to move in; glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what an heart must... | |
| Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1814 - 362 páginas
...with emotion, " when she first rose above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." " And little," said O'Donnel, catching the enthusiasm, " did we then dream that we should have lived... | |
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