| 1825 - 668 страници
...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 - 462 страници
...(like Rousseau's) excluded from the libraries of English Noblemen ! " Books, 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 страници
...(like Rousseau's) excluded from the libraries of English Noblemen! " Books, 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 458 страници
...(like Rousseau's) excluded from the libraries of English Noblemen ! " Books, 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 страници
...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... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 страници
...mere sky, support that mood Which with the lofty sanctifies the low: Dreams, books, are each a world ; frost spread ; But where the ship's huge shadow lay,...the Hhadow of the ship, I watch'd the water-snakes: do I find a never-failing store Of personal themes, and such as I love best ; Matter wherein right... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 страници
...mere sky, 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 good : Round these, with tendrils strongasflesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There find I personal themes, a plenteous... | |
| William Hone - 1832 - 874 страници
...reclining on " daisies vermeilrimmed and white, hid in deep herbage," peruse a favorite author, for g which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow. In Autumn,... | |
| 1835 - 842 страници
..." 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 страници
...? 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... | |
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