 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
 | 1853 - 618 pagine
...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 - 516 pagine
...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 - 1232 pagine
...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 - 404 pagine
...spiritual agencies which are vouchsafed to redeemed man : and our life is also in the world of books. And books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.* I have spoken of literature as only one of the powers from which the mind of man is to receive culture... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 pagine
...also in the world of books. 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.'* I have spoken of literature as only one of the powers from which the mind of man is to receive culture... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 pagine
...also in the world of books. And books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Hound these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow/* I have spoken of literature as only one of the powers "from which the mind of man is to receive culture... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pagine
...support that 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 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... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pagine
...the low. Dreams— hooks — are each a world ; and hooks we know Are a substantial world — hoth pure and good ; Bound these, with tendrils strong...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There find I personal themes, a plenteous store, Matter whercin right voluble I am, To which I listen... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 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 find I personal themes, a plenteous store, Matter wherein right voluble I am, To which I listen... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 376 pagine
...poetry supplies the place which scandal and gossip had occupied. " Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure...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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