 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 - 484 psl.1845Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 psl.
...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 - 1852 - 394 psl.
...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 460 psl.
...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)... | |
 | 1853 - 618 psl.
...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... | |
 | 1853 - 560 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 - 1854 - 1232 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 - 1855 - 416 psl.
...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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