 | Samuel Ware Fisher - 1852 - 336 Seiten
...dreams, are both 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." should be buried in the deep sea. When I speak of the literature of the theater, I mean... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852
...real. We only feel books to be a constituent part of it ; a world, as the poet says, " Bound 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... | |
 | 1853
...creations of the poet : — " For 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." Fiction has yet another claim to our regard as a vehicle for the transmission of opinion ; the results... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853
...Well does a modern writer exclaim — • Rooks are a real world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow 1' 1 Richardson's wit was unlike that of any other writer ; — his humour was so too. Both... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854
...hanker after those we have never seen, we also like old books, old laces, 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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 411 Seiten
...also in the world of books. And boob, w» know, Are a substantial world, both pore and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our...powers to our grievous spiritual injury. It may win ns too much away from the discipline of actual life into an intellectual luxuriousness : it may withdraw... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 508 Seiten
...books — are each a world ; and books we know Are a substantial world — both pure and good ; Bound these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There find I personal themes, a plenteous store, Hatter wherein right voluble I am, To which I listen... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 435 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 find I personal themes, a plenteous store, Matter wherein right voluble I am, To which I listen... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858
...Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, wo kn>w, 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... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 308 Seiten
...Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Bound 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... | |
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