 | Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 384 pages
...poetry supplies the place which scandal and gossip had occupied. " Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Kound these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 pages
...real. We only feel books to be a constituent part of it ; a world, as the poet says, " Eound 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... | |
 | English literature - 1860 - 598 pages
...delightful realities to Hunt. He might fairly say with Wordsworth, that he found in these things, " A substantial world both pure and good. Round these,...voluble I am, To which I listen with a ready ear." And no careful reader of his Autobiography will be disposed to question his right to continue the quotation,... | |
 | 1860 - 600 pages
...say with 'Wordsworth, that he found in these things, " A substantial world both pure and good. Ronnd these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our...voluble I am, To which I listen with a ready ear." Imagination in Common Life. 3fi3 And no careful reader of his Autobiography will be disposed to question... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...treasury of delightful poetry contained in the following pages. " Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know Are a substantial world, both pure...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. * * * * * Two shall be named, pre-eminently dear, — The gentle Lady married to the Moor; And heavenly... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1887 - 628 pages
...and as far as we can go, We may find pleasure : " and he adds : " Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow." Leisure has its especial literature ; a very rich and charming one, to which belong Charles Lamb's... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1860 - 414 pages
...spiritual agencies 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...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 receive culture... | |
 | 1860 - 886 pages
...lofty sanctifies the low : Dreams, books, nre each a world ; and books, we know, Are a sultttantial world both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils...blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There Jo I find a never-failing »tore Of personal themes, and such as I love best ; Matter wherein right... | |
 | 1860 - 656 pages
..." A substantial world both pure and good. Kound these, with tendrils strong as flesh aud blood, Oar pastime and our happiness will grow. There find I personal themes, a plenteous store, Matter, whereto right voluble I am, To which I listen with a ready ear." And no careful reader of his Autobiography... | |
 | sir John Simeon (3rd bart.) - 1860 - 84 pages
...own experience, with our great philosophic poet, "Wordsworth — " Dreams, books, are each a world, and books we know Are a substantial world both pure and good, Round them with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow." I am well aware... | |
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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. 
