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 American Whig Review - Página 4841845Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Noah Porter - 1872 - 426 páginas
...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... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 páginas
...map of the whole world : thoughts, link by link, [gleam Enter through ears and eyesight, with such Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There find I personal themes, a plenteous Of all things, that at last in fear I shrink,... | |
| 1872 - 456 páginas
...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,... | |
| Treasury - 1872 - 166 páginas
...36 • 139 . 140 146 • 147 • 149 • 15° • '57 . 160 •• . NTRODUCTION. BOOKS we know Area substantial world, both pure and good Round these, with tendrils strong as and 1 ill,. ..I, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. Nor can I not believe but that hereby Great... | |
| 1903 - 912 páginas
...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 - 976 páginas
...teaching the young the use and value of books. In the felicitous lines of Wordsworth: "Books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good, Round...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.... | |
| Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1922 - 576 páginas
...paying tribute to books in words such as these: Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know Are a substantial world, both pure and good; Round...as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. and praising the poets—Shakespeare and Spenser specifically— The Poets who on earth... | |
| 1905 - 280 páginas
...circumstances, the truth of Wordsworth's thought: Dreams, books, are each a world; and books we know Are a substantial world, 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... | |
| 1909 - 1078 páginas
...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 páginas
...I prize above my dukedom. Wordsworth sings : Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, -we know, Are a substantial world both pure and good ; Round...as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. Half a lifetime spent in the laborious process of suppressing dacoity, pursuing malefactors,... | |
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