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... English Prose from Mandeville to Ruskin - Página 235de William Peacock - 1903 - 379 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1847 - 722 páginas
...setting out on the highway of heaven, 'decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just begins to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and joy' — shall she be supposed to be polluting and corroding her noble and happy heart, by moping over... | |
| George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 400 páginas
...vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated 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 a heart must I have to contemplate, without emotion,... | |
| John Cumming - 1848 - 558 páginas
...vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full...did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to that enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote... | |
| Benjamin Perley Poore - 1848 - 370 páginas
...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 Home of Orleans.... | |
| Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 páginas
...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 joy. Oh ! what a resolution! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate, without emotion,... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 páginas
...setting out on the highway of heaven, " decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just begins to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and joy," 15 shall she be supposed to be polluting and corroding her noble and happy heart, by moping over... | |
| Esq. J. B. (Barrister-at-Law.), John Bill - 1850 - 586 páginas
...I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere, that she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full...emotion, that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream that I should live to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men—in a nation of... | |
| Bernard Burke - 1850 - 630 páginas
...delightful vision. I sawherjustabovethehorizon,decoratingand cheering theelevated sphere she just began to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." The truth of the portrait has never been contradicted : a creature more guiltless, more unworthy of... | |
| Benjamin Cowell - 1850 - 364 páginas
...vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated 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 I have, to contemplate, without... | |
| John Cumming - 1851 - 592 páginas
...vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full...did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to that enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote... | |
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