 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.  The Harvard Classics - Page 222edited by - 1909Full view - About this book
 | 1839 - 914 pages
...fall'n, fall'n, fall'n, from his high estate, and weltering in his gore. O, what a revolution ! ond what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion, that elevation and that fall. What shadows we are, — what shadows we pursue ! Here rests, his head upon the lap of earth, A youth,... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...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...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... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Smyth - France - 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... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 702 pages
...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...I " saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheer" ing the elevated sphere she just began to move in, " glittering like the morning star, full... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 738 pages
...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...I " saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheer" ing the elevated sphere she just began to move in, " glittering like the morning star, full... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...years', | since I saw the queen of France, | then the dauphiness, | at Versailles' ; | and surely, never lighted on this , orb, | (which she hardly seemed...more delightful vis.ion. | I saw her just above the horrzon, | decorating, and cheering the elevated sphere , | she just began to move, in — glittering... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Literature - 1841 - 662 pages
...visions. We see them just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere they just begin to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life and splendour and joy." The innocent Imogen, causing her servant to repeat the farewell of Posthumus,— eagerly questioning... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 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,...she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy."* All his writings, but especially his later ones,... | |
 | Judith Page Walker Rives - Europe - 1842 - 328 pages
...being safe "beneath the shadow of his wing." SURPRISES. ' Behold a man much wronged." COM. OF ERRORS. " I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy." BURKE. UNCONSCIOUS of the events that were occurring... | |
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