 | Charles Garvice - 1875 - 242 pages
...perchance, temper justice with mercy. CHARLES GARVICE. THE RETREAT, COOKHAM, AUG. 24TH, 1875. c. CHAPTER I. Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know,...with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. WORDSWORTH. WHAT need is there to describe Grassmere ? Who does not know... | |
 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1922 - 576 pages
...expressed or implied, does not appear, one finds Wordsworth paying tribute to books in words such as these: Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know...with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. and praising the poets—Shakespeare and Spenser specifically— The Poets... | |
 | 1905 - 280 pages
...Fates, but those who may be the victims of unfortunate circumstances, the truth of Wordsworth's thought: Dreams, books, are each a world; and books we know...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 pages
...immortal, shall never die, but shall 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 strong as flesh and blood. Our pastime and our happiness can grow. than Nature... | |
 | 1923 - 1004 pages
...furnished me From mine own library, with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. Wordsworth sings : Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, -we know,...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,... | |
 | Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - 1985 - 268 pages
...hundred-handed giant who sided with Zens in the Olympians' war against Briareus's fellow-Titans. for books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure...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... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 pages
...turns in his reminiscences of Othello. In the sonnet sequence Personal Talk ( 1 8021804) he declares, "Dreams, books, are each a world; and books we know, / Are a substantial world," and he continues: And heavenly Una with her milk-white Lamb. (33-34,40-42) Wordsworth opposes these... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...as far as we can go 30 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... | |
 | John Y Cole, Henry Hope Reed - 1997 - 330 pages
...eight inscriptions are as follows: Studies perfect nature and are perfected by experience. — Bacon Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. — Wordsworth Learning is but an adjunct to ourself. — Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost — Pope... | |
 | Grant Hardy - 1999 - 336 pages
...world itself, and through its very existence, it seeks to change that world. REPRESENTING THE WORLD Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know Are a substantial world, both pure and good. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, "Personal Talk" Historical writing in the West begins with the inquiries (historia)... | |
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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. 
