"Dreamland" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... successes. He constantly helped us to believe in, and to will towards the existence of such a world here on earth, as we have set our heart upon. He is not an idealist in the vague sense, for he imports no beauty merely from dreamland. Like the Greeks, he makes the possible his single ideal. In insisting upon the possibility of beauty and suppressing every reference to the monstrous story of failure which the existence of hideousness implies, once more he puts the world in debt to art after ...
— George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians • T. Martin Wood
... in dreamland all through it, And I do not regret it at all; Though it cost me two dollars to do it, I took ...
— When hearts are trumps • Thomas Winthrop Hall
... cool leafy screen. And faint crept odors through the mangroves green, Where paused the pair upon the sandy shore. Love-tranced, unheeded, swiftly passed them o'er Glad summer days: till one hour softly laid At Lilith's feet a fair, lone babe, that strayed From distant Dreamland far. So might one deem That looked upon its face. Or, it might seem From other climes, a rose-leaf blown apart, Down-fluttered there, to gladden ...
— Lilith - The Legend of the First Woman • Ada Langworthy Collier
... the slow night watches, One more sleep when the world is dumb, And his soul leans out to the sweet wild snatches Of song that up from dreamland come. ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... a name?" said Basil to Barrie. "Was it given to you in dreamland or the spirit-world?" Then she knew at once that he was not a foe, but ...
— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
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