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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 American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ... - Page 209
by Increase Cooke - 1811 - 408 pages
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On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With ..., Volume 1

Charles Bucke - 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,...Versailles : and surely never lighted on this orb, which it hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and...
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On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With ..., Volume 4

Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 pages
...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 her just ahove the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere, she just began to move in : glittering...
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The Lady's Magazine and Museum of the Belles-lettres, Fine Arts ..., Volume 8

1836 - 496 pages
...her charms : — " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I first saw the Queen of France, then Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she scarcely seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...save the man, than to preserve his brazen slippers as the monuments of his folly. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then...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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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...whoever may partake of the plunder. APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. BURKE. IT is now, sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then...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 Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 pages
...FRANCE. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphincss, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb,...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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I. The Claims of Sir Philip Francis, K. B., to the Authorship of Junius's ...

Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - 588 pages
...passes it : ' And surely never lighted on this orb, which she ' hardly seemed to touch, a more delighful 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 Monthly Gazette of Health, Volume 11

1830 - 408 pages
...strictly applicable to what I beheld in her. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years," he observes,* " since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness,...she had just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 35

1847 - 770 pages
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A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and ...

Jonathan Barber - 1830 - 364 pages
...the 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 orb'd moon shone with uncommon splendor. 'Till that a capable...
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