 | William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 páginas
...makes on what was to have been her wedding day ? Well does a certain writer exclaim — " Books are a real world, both pure and good, Round which with...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow !" Eichardson's wit was unlike that of any other writer : his humour was so too. Both were the effect... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 páginas
...CHAPTER X. COMPANIONSHIP OF BOOKS. " Books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good, Koucd which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness can grow." — Wordsworth. "Not only in the common speech of men, but In all art too — which is or... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1876 - 368 páginas
...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... | |
 | Henry Crabb Robinson - 1927 - 480 páginas
...books, arc 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.' Personal Talk, mv In addition to the books sold by auction in 1859, we may perhaps assume... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1927 - 734 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - 1921 - 318 páginas
...loved to quote 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." To those who enjoyed his intimacy the truth of this is known. Wherever he was there were... | |
 | 1903 - 912 páginas
...process of 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... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1892 - 802 páginas
...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.'' The appetite for them grows by what it feeds on. They displace meaner tastes and recreations.... | |
 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1922 - 576 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1909 - 1078 páginas
...serve, and be loved by the children of men for ever. Says Wordsworth: Books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils...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... | |
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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. 
