 | Tobias Smollett - 1796 - 612 pages
...fentirr.ent, and elegant in manners ; and the rirft Hidden emotion was fortified by the h.ibitsand knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance. She permitted...make her two or three vifits at her father's houfe. I pafli-d fome happy days, there, in the mountains of Burgundy, and her parents honourably encouraged... | |
 | 1870 - 584 pages
...her manners. The young eleve was fascinated. ' I saw her,' he says, ' and loved.' His ' first sudden emotion' was fortified by the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance. His advances were encouraged. From mere meetings at Lausanne, it came to formal visits at her father's... | |
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I found her learned without pedantry, lively in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners; and the first sudden emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance. 
