 | William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 pagina’s
...friend ; or the heart-breaking reflection that Clarissa makes on what was to have been her wedding day ? Well does a certain writer exclaim — " Books are...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow !" Eichardson's wit was unlike that of any other writer : his humour was so too. Both were the effect... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 pagina’s
...CHAPTER X. COMPANIONSHIP OF BOOKS. " Books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good, Koucd which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness can grow." — Wordsworth. "Not only in the common speech of men, but In all art too — which is or... | |
 | 1876 - 450 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. — Wordsworth: Personal Talk, 56. 1. Books make up no small part of human happiness. —... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1927 - 168 pagina’s
...the 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)... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1927 - 164 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 %vhen / Ireland is mentioned, or a child is grieving)... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1927 - 164 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)... | |
 | Henry Crabb Robinson - 1927 - 480 pagina’s
...books, arc 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.' Personal Talk, mv In addition to the books sold by auction in 1859, we may perhaps assume... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1927 - 734 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,... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - 1921 - 318 pagina’s
...loved to quote Wordsworth : "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." To those who enjoyed his intimacy the truth of this is known. Wherever he was there were... | |
 | 1903 - 912 pagina’s
...process of selection — or election — we choose the scenes and memories that shall stay with us, round which " with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow." Almost invariably in my life when some epoch-marking book or poem has risen like a new... | |
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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. 
