| 1825 - 668 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 may grow." If we are repelled after a while by familiarity, or when the first gloss of novelty wears... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 Seiten
...dreams are each a world, and 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." Let me then conjure the gentle reader, who has ever felt an attachment to books, not hastily... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 Seiten
...dreams are each a world, and 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." Let me then conjure the gentle reader, who has ever felt an attachment to books, not hastily... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 Seiten
...Dreams, books, are each aworld ; 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... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 Seiten
...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 do I find a never-failing store Of personal themes, and such as I love best ; Matter wherein... | |
| William Hone - 1832 - 874 Seiten
...peruse a favorite author, 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. In Autumn, too, When barred clouds bloom the «oft-dying day. And touch the stubble plains... | |
| 1835 - 842 Seiten
..." world of books" — reminds me of 14. " 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." Wordsworth. 15. "Oh! who shall tell the glory of the good man's course, when, as his mortal... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 288 Seiten
...? Well does a modern 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... | |
| Horace Binney Wallace - 1838 - 264 Seiten
...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. WORDSWORTH. • * I WAS born near the village of Merton, a small town in one of the Atlantic States,... | |
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