 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...this figure in his celebrated description of the queen of France is of a similar nature: " 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... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...within it which possesses mine : " It is now," said the immortal Burke, in 1790, "sixteen or eighteen 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... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...within it which possesses mine : " It is now," said the immortal Burke, in 1790, "sixteen or eighteen 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... | |
 | Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...consumed in the same manner. Mr. Burke's animated description of the late Queen . of France. 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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...conquer —or die ! . SECTION II. Eulogium of Antoinette, the late Queen of France. 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...herself from the hst disgrace, and that if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Uauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...— let us conquer, or die ! Section II. EULOGIUM OF ANTOINETTE, THE LATE QUEEN OF FRANCE. 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... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...Duke of Bedford would have it, from an unworthy parent. DESCRIPTION OF THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. 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... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...herself from the last disgrace, and that if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand. 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... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 352 pages
...j since it touches one of the finest chords of the heart,—" It is now sixteen years," said he, " since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles : and surely never lighted on this orb, which it hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw... | |
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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. 
