 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.  The American Whig Review - Pagina 4801845Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Hints - 1843 - 344 pagina’s
...mood, Which with the lofty sanctifies the low; Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books we know Are a substantial world, both pure and good ; Round...as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow, There find I personal themes Great gains are mine, for thus I live remote From evil speaking... | |
 | 1845 - 688 pagina’s
...ancestral tombs." When wearied and disgusted with the vanities and frivolities of the giddy and triflmg world ; when cheated and wounded in our heart's holiest...by their society. Books, moreover, we mean genuine r books, not mere shams, vanities, and vacua in books' clothing, are about the only friends that will... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pagina’s
...mood Which with the lofty sanetifies the low. Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 pagina’s
...? 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 the effect... | |
 | 1845 - 480 pagina’s
...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, a means... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1848 - 614 pagina’s
....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 from... | |
 | 1858 - 682 pagina’s
...and in my fancy Deface their ill-placed statues." B. and F., Elder Brother, Act 1. "... Books we know Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round...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 pagina’s
...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 is grieving)... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 pagina’s
...mood, Which, with the lofty, sanctifies the low : Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know. Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round...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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