 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1887 - 628 pages
...have we," says Wordsworth, " • and as far as we can go, We may find pleasure : " and he adds : " Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know,...with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow." Leisure has its especial literature ; a very rich and charming one, to... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 pages
...and serve as an introduction to the treasury of delightful poetry contained in the following pages. " Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know...with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. * * * * * Two shall be named, pre-eminently dear, — The gentle Lady... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 414 pages
...spiritual agencies which are vouchsafed to redeemed man : and our life is also in the world of books. And books, we know, Are a substantial world, both...with tendrils strong* as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.* I have spoken of literature as only one of the powers from which the... | |
 | sir John Simeon (3rd bart.) - 1860 - 84 pages
...me. In fact, I may say, from my own experience, with our great philosophic poet, "Wordsworth — " Dreams, books, are each a world, and books we know Are a substantial world both pure and good, Round them with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow." I am well aware... | |
 | 1860 - 598 pages
...delightful realities to Hunt. He might fairly say with Wordsworth, that he found in these things, " 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... | |
 | 1860 - 886 pages
...lofty sanctifies the low : Dreams, books, nre each a world ; and books, we know, Are a sultttantial world both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There Jo I find a never-failing »tore Of personal themes, and such as... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...as far as we can go, We may find pleasure : wilderness and wood, Blank ocean and mere sky, support that mood Which, with the lofty, sanctifies the low;...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... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1863 - 368 pages
...life that had been the dream of my youth. Surely it is Wordsworth who says that " ' Dreams, books, arc each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good,' " CHAPTER XXXIX. MY BIRTHDAY. THREE years of travelling abroad, and five of retirement at home, brought... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 316 pages
...as far as we can go, We may find pleasure : wilderness and wood, Blank ocean and mere sky, support that mood Which with the lofty sanctifies the low....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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 pages
...as far as we can go, We may find pleasure : wilderness and wood, Blank ocean and mere sky, support that mood Which with the lofty sanctifies the low....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... | |
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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. 
