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. Forest Life - Page 226by Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1844Full view - About this book
| Literature - 1853 - 618 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1853 - 518 pages
...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 - English literature - 1854 - 1228 pages
...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 - English literature - 1855 - 416 pages
...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...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 - English literature - 1855 - 424 pages
...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 - 428 pages
...also in the world of books. And boob, w» know, Are a substantial world, both pore 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... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...books — are each a world ; and books we know Are a substantial world — both pure and good ; Bound these, with tendrils strong as flesh 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... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 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 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... | |
| WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, wo kn>w, 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 do I find a never-failing store Of personal themes, and such as I love best ; Matter wherein... | |
| Frederick William Robertson - Literature - 1858 - 376 pages
...Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Bound 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... | |
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