 | Hints - 1843 - 344 Seiten
...wilderness and wood, Blank ocean and mere sky, support that mood, Which with the lofty sanctifies the low; Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books we know...happiness will grow, There find I personal themes Great gains are mine, for thus I live remote From evil speaking ; rancour never sought, Comes to me... | |
 | 1845 - 688 Seiten
...hollowness and heartlessness of worldly society ; there are none of us but may rejoice to know that " Books, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round...as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow." In this so hollow, but solid-seeming < world, good books are almost the only friends we... | |
 | 1845 - 732 Seiten
...hollowness and heartlessness of worldly society ; there are none of us but may rejoice to know that " Books, Are a suBstantial world, both pure and good. Round...as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow." In this so hollow, but solid-seeming world, good books are almost the only friends we can... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 Seiten
...has expressed this sentiment well (perhaps I have borrowed it from him) — " 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. ****** Two... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1845 - 480 Seiten
...degrees, now nearly attained by the subject of our sketch; and oh! with many a glorious thought (" 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,) . had he,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 Seiten
...? Well does a certain 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... | |
 | 1848 - 614 Seiten
....I ON BO01KS AND READING. " Books we know Are a substantial world, both pore and good ; Round which with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow." WollllSWOKTII. ONB of the most important means of mental pleasure and cultivation is derivable... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 Seiten
...wilderness and wood, Blank ocean and mere sky, support that mood Which with the lofty sanctifies the low. Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know,...right voluble I am, To which I listen with a ready car ; Two shall be named, pre-eminently dear, — The gentle Lady married to the Moor ; And heavenly... | |
 | 1858 - 682 Seiten
...strict account ; and in my fancy Deface their ill-placed statues." B. and F., Elder Brother, Act 1. "... Books we know Are a substantial world, both pure and...with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime artd our happiness will grow. There find I personal themes a plenteous store, Matter wherein right... | |
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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. 
