 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 446 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. Hence have I genial seasons, hence have I Smooth passions, smooth discourse, and joyous thought: And... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 страници
...sky, supply that mood, Which, with the lofty, sanctifies the low : Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know. Are a substantial world, both...with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime anil our happiness will grow. There do 1 find a never-failing source Of personal themes, and such as... | |
 | Samuel Ware Fisher - 1852 - 394 страници
...be forgotten ! Mr. Wadsworth has 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 strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow." should be... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 страници
...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 460 страници
...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... | |
 | 1853 - 618 страници
...fellowship and reunion in the affections and antipathies inspired by the creations of the poet : — " For books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure...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... | |
 | 1853 - 560 страници
...treasury of delightful poetry contained in the following pages. " Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as Hesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. ***** Two shall be named, pre-eminently dear,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 516 страници
...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 страници
...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 - 424 страници
...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...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... | |
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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. 
