 | 1860 - 886 pagine
...wilderness and wood, Blank ocean and mere sky, support that mood Which with the lofty sanctifies the low : Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know,...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There do I find a never-failing store Of personal themes, and such as I love best ; Matter wherein... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 pagine
...poetry contained in the following pages. " Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we knowAre a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these,...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 Una with... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 414 pagine
...man : and our life is also in the world of books. And books, we know, Are a substantial world,both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong*...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... | |
 | sir John Simeon (3rd bart.) - 1860 - 84 pagine
...to me. In fact, I may say, from my 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... | |
 | 1860 - 598 pagine
...say with Wordsworth, that he found in these things, " A substantial world both pure and good. Hound 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pagine
...mood Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we kr Which, with the lofty, sanctifies the low; Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blow Our pastime and our happiness will grow. Of personal themes, and such as I love best; There do... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1863 - 368 pagine
...to the student life that had been the dream of my youth. Surely it is Wordsworth who says that " ' Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good.' " CHAPTEE XXXIX. MY BIRTHDAY. THREE years of travelling abroad, and five of retirement at home, brought... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 818 pagine
...? Well does a modem writer exclaim— 1 Books are a real world, both pure and good, Round wliii-li. with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow 1' ' Richardson's wit was unlike that of any other writer;—his humour was so too. Both were... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1864 - 546 pagine
...as we can go We may find pleasure 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. There find I personal themes, a plenteous store; Matter wherein right voluble I am;— rTo which I... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1864 - 540 pagine
...as we can go We may find pleasure 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. There find I personal themes, a plenteous store; Matter wherein right voluble I am ;— To which I... | |
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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. 
