 | 1872 - 264 pagine
...Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will. — Wordsworth. Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,...pastime and our happiness will grow. — Wordsworth: Personal Talk, 56. 1. Books make up no small part of human happiness.—Frederic the Great, in youth.... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pagine
...personal talk,— Of friends, who live within an easy walk, Or neighbours, daily, weekly, in my sight: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There find I personal Ihemes, a plenteous store ; Matter wherein right voluble I am : To which I listen... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1872 - 426 pagine
...LL.D.. PROFESSOR IN YALE COLLEGE. FOURTH EDITION, WITH AN INDEX. —and books -we know Are a iabstantial world, both pure and good; Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our paitime and our happiness wilt grow. NEW YOKK: CHARLES SCRIBNER & CO. 1872. GlfT OF THE IOSTON ATHENAEUM... | |
 | 1872 - 456 pagine
...solace of a »ad life." " —and books we know Are a substantial world, both pure and gdod; Round them, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow." But what would any wealth be, which one might accumulate; what would any mental culture, and intellectual... | |
 | 1892 - 968 pagine
...indispensable for teaching the young the use and value of books. In the felicitous lines of Wordsworth : "Books, we know. Are a substantial world, both pure...blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.'' The appetite for them grows by what it feeds on. They displace meaner tastes and recreations. By bringing... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1892 - 976 pagine
...value of books. In the felicitous lines of Wordsworth : "Books, we know. Are a substantial world, botli pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as...blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.'' The appetite for them grows by what it feeds on. They displace meaner tastes and recreations. By bringing... | |
 | 1905 - 280 pagine
...but those who may be the victims of unfortunate circumstances, the truth of Wordsworth's thought: I Dreams, books, are each a world; and books we know...both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong and flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. Two problems confront the teacher of... | |
 | 1914 - 508 pagine
...libraries. school, only adding that many a girl has learned through its use to echo Wordsworth's words: And books we know Are a substantial world, both pure...these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastimes and our happiness will grow. —Reprinted from THE ENGLISH JOURNAL, Vol. III., No. 2, February,... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1915 - 492 pagine
...university of these days is a collection of books and all education is to teach us how to read"—that "books, we know, are a substantial world, both pure...flesh and blood, our pastime and our happiness will grow"—that "a good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on... | |
 | 1916 - 926 pagine
...literature. As with national life, so it is with the individual. We are a reflection of what we read: Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know...these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastimes and our happiness will grow. •O'Connor, Reading and the Mind, pp. 17, 18. " Books," says... | |
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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. 
