 | 1877 - Страниц: 226
...patron of Gluck, and brought his music into fashion. She won the ardent admiration of Burke, who wrote: "Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizjn, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the... | |
 | John Cumming - 1848 - Страниц: 558
...apostrophe of Burke : " It is now sixteen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness of Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb,...morning star, full of life and splendour and joy. Oh what a revolution! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - 1848 - Страниц: 400
...Louis XVI., and the unfortunate Marie Antoinette, who was that year described by Burke as " decorating the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy." The Duke of Chartres professed the deepest * See Frontispiece. t The House of Orleans.... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - Страниц: 446
...that should resound through the universe. ROBERTSON. EULOGIUM OF ANTOINETTE, THE LATE QUEEN OF FRANCE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw 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 joy.... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1849 - Страниц: 708
..." It is now," says 12. Mr Burke, in a passage which will live as long as the " English language, " sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of...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 joy. Oh... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - Страниц: 524
...imprisonment, Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. VII. — MAU1E ANTOINETTE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh 1 what a revolution ! and what a heart must... | |
 | Benjamin Cowell - 1850 - Страниц: 364
...lighted * Marie Antoinette was born Nov. 2, 1765— married in May, 1770— was beheaded Oct. 25, 1793. on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more...glittering like the morning star — full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! — and what an heart must I have, to contemplate, without... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1850 - Страниц: 630
...Burke saw her at Versailles ; his well-known brilliant description of her, is familiar to all — " Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I sawherjustabovethehorizon,decoratingand cheering theelevated sphere she just began to move in ; glittering... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - Страниц: 616
...the iron hand of oppression, and the insolent spurn of contempt. MAEIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw 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 that elevation... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - Страниц: 616
...the iron hand of oppression, and the insolent spurn of contempt. MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...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... | |
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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... 
