 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pagine
..."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 saw her just above " the horizon, decorating and cheering the elc" vated sphere she just... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pagine
...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, a more delightful vision. ] saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1815 - 724 pagine
...blotted it out for ever. TIUSTHAM SUANDY. Page 116. — Surely never lighted on this orb, Sfc. — ' And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more de. lightful vision.' Page 118.— Seizing my hand, Sfc. — ' He gently seized her hand, and carried... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 pagine
...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. 1 saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just began to... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1830 - 360 pagine
...foregoing tables ; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orVd moon shone with uncommon splendor. Till that a capable... | |
 | 1832 - 600 pagine
...being who stole me from myself ! Burke's rapture, however, on the queen of France, — ' surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision, — 'would have been quite inapplicable, for touch it she did, and stood firm on it with the help of... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 356 pagine
...foregoing tables; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orVd moon shone with uncommon splendor. 'Till that a capable... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 360 pagine
...foregoing tables ; and some of the most difficult combinations are frequently repeated in them. And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. Burke. The evening was fine and the full orUd moon shone with uncommon splendor. Till that a capable... | |
 | 1836 - 432 pagine
...figure is a portrait of the fascinating Queen herself, sculptured at the very time when, as Burke says " never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delighftul vision." This, like the former statue, is devoid of drapery. The position of the body, and... | |
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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. 
