 | 1845 - 480 pagina’s
...subject of our sketch; and oh! with many a glorious thought (" For books we know Are a substantial world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils...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... | |
 | 1845 - 732 pagina’s
...us but may rejoice to know that " Books, Are a suBstantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow." In this so hollow, but solid-seeming world, good books are almost the only friends we can safely trust... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 pagina’s
...scenes, or 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... | |
 | 1845 - 688 pagina’s
...us but may rejoice to know that " Books, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow." In this so hollow, but solid-seeming < world, good books are almost the only friends we can safely... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 388 pagina’s
...were contemplated by Providence, as well as other matters of fact.—In the * Books are a real world, Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow." •WoBDSWORTH. A passage often quoted—it cannot be too often. time of Claudian, the mere sight of... | |
 | 1848 - 614 pagina’s
...Correspondent. June, 1848. , .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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 264 pagina’s
...life the less 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)... | |
 | Samuel Ware Fisher - 1852 - 394 pagina’s
...expressed this sentiment well:" " Books, dreams, are both a world; and books, we know. Are a substantial world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils...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 the body of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 pagina’s
...the less 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 is grieving)... | |
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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. 
