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
| Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...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 is grieving)... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 pages
...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 is grieving)... | |
| Samuel Ware Fisher - Young men - 1852 - 394 pages
...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 buried in the deep sea. When I speak of the literature of the theater, I mean the body of... | |
| Literature - 1853 - 618 pages
...in the affections and antipathies inspired by the creations of the poet : — " For books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good ; Round...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... | |
| Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1853 - 516 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 were the... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 1232 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 - 424 pages
...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 pure and good : Round...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... | |
| Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pages
...and our life is 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... | |
| Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 416 pages
...also in the world of books. And books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Hound 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... | |
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