| Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 Seiten
...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 Seiten
...? Well does a certain writer exclaim — " Books are a real world, both pure and good, Round which with tendrils strong as flesh 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... | |
| Ohio State Bar Association - 1921 - 318 Seiten
...He 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 his books... | |
| 1903 - 912 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
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