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. Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: A-O - Pagina iiidi George Clement Boase, William Prideaux Courtney - 1874 - 417 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| 1825 - 668 pagine
...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 - 464 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 - 462 pagine
...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 Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
..." 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 pagine
...? 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 pagine
...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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