 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...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 do I find a never-falling store Of personal themes, and such as I love best;. Matter... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...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 do I find a never-failing store Of personal themes, and such as I love best ; Matter... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...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 do I find a never-failing store Of personal themes, and such as I love best ; Matter... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...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 do I find a never-failing store Of personal themes, and such as I love best ; Matter... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 pages
...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 tendrils...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow ! " Richardson's wit was unlike that of any other writer — his humour was so too. Both were the effect... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 pages
...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 do I find a never-failing store Of personal themes, and such as I love best ; Matter... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 474 pages
...what •was to have been her wedding-day ? Well does a modern writer exclaim,— ' Books are a real world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow !' " Richardson's wit was unlike that of any other writer ;—his humour was so too. Both were the... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 pages
...on what was to have been her wedding-day ? Well does a modern writer exclaim, — ' Books are a real world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow ! ' " Richardson's wit was unlike that of any other writer ; — his humour was so too. Both were the... | |
 | 1825 - 668 pages
...scenes, or hanker after those we have never seen, we also like old books, old faces, old haunts, " Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow." If we are repelled after a while by familiarity, or when the first gloss of novelty wears ofT, we are... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 458 pages
...never (like Rousseau's) excluded from the libraries of English Noblemen ! " Books, dreams are each a world, and books, we know, Are a substantial world,...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow." Let me then conjure the gentle reader, who has ever felt an attachment to books, not hastily to divorce... | |
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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. 
