 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 страници
...Talh. S(.i. 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 gentle Lady married to the Moor, And heavenly Una with her milk-white Lamb. Ibid. St, 3. Blessings... | |
 | George Clement Boase, William Prideaux Courtney - 1874 - 442 страници
...BOASE AND WILLIAM PRIDEAUX COURTNEY. "Books we know Are a substantial world, both pure and good; Bound these with tendrils, strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow." Wordsworth's Personal Talk. VOLUME l. l A— 0. LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, and DYER. 1874. <"•,-•"•'... | |
 | 1903 - 912 страници
...selection — or election — we choose the scenes and memories that shall stay with us, round which " with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow." Almost invariably in my life when some epoch-marking book or poem has risen like a new star above my... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1892 - 976 страници
...of books. In the felicitous lines of Wordsworth: "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. 1 ' The appetite for them grows by what it feeds on. They displace meaner tastes and recreations. By... | |
 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1922 - 576 страници
...such as these: 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. and praising the poets—Shakespeare and Spenser specifically— The Poets who on earth have made us... | |
 | 1909 - 1078 страници
...for ever. Says Wordsworth: 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 can grow. than Nature only do books "to him who . . . holds communion with [th'ir] visible forms, speak... | |
 | 1923 - 1004 страници
...Wordsworth sings : 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. Half a lifetime spent in the laborious process of suppressing dacoity, pursuing malefactors, and generally... | |
 | Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - 1985 - 268 страници
...Olympians' war against Briareus's fellow-Titans. for 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.2 Fiction has yet another claim to our regard as a vehicle for the transmission of opinion; the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 страници
...sanctifies the low. 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. There find I personal themes, a plenteous store, Matter wherein right voluble I am, To which I listen... | |
 | Laura Stoddart - 2001 - 100 страници
...sister, Fanny 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. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) from Personal Talk People say that life is the thing, but I prefer books.... | |
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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. 
