 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.  The American Whig Review - Page 4801845Full view - About this book
 | 1825 - 668 pages
...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 ofT, we are... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 464 pages
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Rationalism - 1826 - 462 pages
...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...mood Which with the lofty sanctifies the low. Dreams, books, are each aworld ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round...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... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...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 pages
...peruse a favorite author, for 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. In Autumn, too, When barred clouds bloom the «oft-dying day. And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
..." 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 organs... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 288 pages
...? 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 were the... | |
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