 | 1845 - 688 páginas
...none of us but may rejoice to know that " Books, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong 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 páginas
...none of us but may rejoice to know that " Books, Are a suBstantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong 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 - 242 páginas
...? 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 páginas
...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 páginas
...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, for hours and hours together, gloated over their Dumber, amassed by his own efforts,... | |
 | 1848 - 614 páginas
....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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 264 páginas
...real. We only feel books to be a constituent part of it; a world, as the poet says, " Round 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 páginas
...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 460 páginas
...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... | |
 | Samuel Ware Fisher - 1852 - 394 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
