| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 Seiten
...sanetifies the low. Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There find I personal themes, a plenteous store, Matter wherein right voluble I am, To which I listen... | |
| 1845 - 688 Seiten
...society ; there are none of us but may rejoice to know that " Books, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow." In this so hollow, but solid-seeming < world, good books are almost the only friends we... | |
| 1845 - 732 Seiten
...society ; there are none of us but may rejoice to know that " Books, Are a suBstantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow." In this so hollow, but solid-seeming world, good books are almost the only friends we can... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 Seiten
...hanker after those we have never seen, we also like old books, old faces, old haunts, " Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness have grown." If we are repelled after a while by familiarity, or when the first gloss of novelty wears... | |
| 1845 - 480 Seiten
...many a glorious thought (" For books we know Are a substantial world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow,) . had he, for hours and hours together, gloated over their Dumber, amassed by his own efforts,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 Seiten
...? Well does a certain writer exclaim — " Books are a real world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow !" Richardson's wit was unlike that of any other writer — his humour was so too. Both were... | |
| 1848 - 614 Seiten
....I ON BO01KS AND READING. " Books we know Are a substantial world, both pore and good ; Round which with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow." WollllSWOKTII. ONB of the most important means of mental pleasure and cultivation is derivable... | |
| 1858 - 682 Seiten
...ill-placed statues." B. and F., Elder Brother, Act 1. "... Books we know Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime artd our happiness will grow. There find I personal themes a plenteous store, Matter wherein right... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 264 Seiten
...real. We only feel books to be a constituent part of it; a world, as the poet says, " Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow." What do readers care for " existing things " (except when Ireland is mentioned, or a child... | |
| George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 Seiten
...the low : Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know. Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime anil our happiness will grow. There do 1 find a never-failing source Of personal themes, and such as... | |
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