 He found in them the guileless manner of the earliest times, with the culture and accomplishment of the most refined ones. Every better feeling, warm and vivid; every ungentle one, repressed or overcome. He was not addicted to love; but he felt himself...  The British Essayists - Page 206edited by - 1807Full view - About this book
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 328 pages
...not addicted to love ; but he felt himself happy in being the friend of Mademoiselle La Roche, u 3 and sometimes envied her father the possession of...nature seems to repose, as it were, in quiet, and has enclosed her retreat with mountains inaccessible. A stream that spent its fury in the hills above,... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1820 - 324 pages
...overcome. He was not addicted to love ; but he felt himself happy in being the friend of Mademoiselle La Roche, and sometimes envied her father the possession...valleys of the canton of Berne, where nature seems to repftse, as it were, in quiet, and has inclosed her retreat with mountains inaccessible. — A stream... | |
 | 1822 - 326 pages
...overcome. He was not addicted to love; but he felt himself happy in being the friend of Mademoiselle La Roche, and sometimes envied her father the possession...nature seems to repose, as it were, in quiet, and has enclosed her retreat with mountains inaccessible. A stream, that spent its fury in the hills above,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...overcome. He was not addicted to love ; but he felt himself happy in being the friend of Mademoiselle La Roche, and sometimes envied her father the possession...inaccessible. A stream, that spent its fury in the hills above, ran in front of the house, and a broken water- fall was seen through the wood that covered... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 690 pages
...overcome. He was not addicted to love ; but he felt himself happy in being the friend of Mademoiselle La Roche, and sometimes envied her father the possession...nature seems to repose, as it were, in quiet, and has enclosed her retreat with mountains inaccessible. A stream that spent its fury in the hills above,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 334 pages
...overcome. He was not addicted to love ; but he felt himself happy in being the friend of Mademoiselle La Roche, and sometimes envied her father the possession...nature seems to repose, as it were, in quiet, and has enclosed her retreat with mountains inaccessible. A stream that spent its fury in the hills above,... | |
 | Ambrose Marten - 1826 - 926 pages
...; but he felt himself happy in being the friend of Mademoiselle La Roche, and sometimes envied Let father the possession of such a child. After a journey...inaccessible. — A stream, that spent its fury in the hills above, ran in front of the house, and a broken water-fall, was seen through the wood thai covered... | |
 | Fiction - 1827 - 446 pages
...overcome. He was not addicted to love ; but he felt himself happy in being the friend of Mademoiselle La Roche, and sometimes envied her father the possession...nature seems to repose, as it were, in quiet, and has enclosed her retreat with mountains inaccessible A stream, that spent its fury in the hills above,... | |
 | Richard Griffin - 1831 - 228 pages
...overcome. He was not addicted to love ; but he felt himself happy in being the friend of Mademoiselle La Roche, and sometimes envied her father the possession...dwelling of La Roche. It was situated in one of those vatyeys of the canton of Berne, where nature seems to repose, as it were, in quiet, and has enclosed... | |
 | John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...repressed or overcome. He was not addicted to love; but he felt himself happy in being the friend of Miss La Roche, and sometimes envied her father the possession of such a child. 4. After a journey of eleven days, they arrived at the dwelling of La Roche. It was situated in»one... | |
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