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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. "
The Port Folio - Page 229
1809
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The Life of Edmund Burke: Comprehending and Impartial Account of ..., Volume 2

Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...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 elevated sphere she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning * State Trials, vol. ii, p. 360, 363. star,...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 46

1827 - 698 pages
...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 elevated sphere she just began to move in — ' glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, ' and joy.'...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...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 elevated sphere she just began tomove in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh...
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American Lady's Preceptor: A Compilation of Observations, Essays, and ...

Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...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 elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh!...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...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 elevated sphere she had just began to move in,— —glittering like the morning star ; full of life, and splendor, and...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings of Certain ...

Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...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 in; glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh !...
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Letters from Geneva and France: Written During a Residence of ..., Volume 2

Francis Kinloch - France - 1819 - 346 pages
...about for some time, we entered the palace by the great marble staircase, and passed through a suit of rooms, which were formerly appropriated to the...Mahomet entered it after taking the city by storm ; a melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatness, says the historian, forced itself...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...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 move in, glittering like the morning star ; full of life, and splendour, and joy....
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Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with ...

Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...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 elevated sphere she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh!...
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The New Edinburgh review

1822 - 694 pages
...surely never lighted upon this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful 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 splendour, and of joy....
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