 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.  Forest Life - Page 226by Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1844Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - Bookbinding - 1858 - 550 pages
...Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, wo 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 wherein... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1858 - 424 pages
...the world of books. And books, we know, Arc a substantial world, both pure and good : Round those, 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 mind of man is to receive culture... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 pages
...real. We only feel books to be a constituent part of it ; a world, as the poet says, " Eound which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow." What do readers care for " existing things " (except when Ireland is mentioned, or a child... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1887 - 628 pages
...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." Leisure has its especial literature ; a very rich and charming one, to which belong Charles Lamb's... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...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. * * * * * Two shall be named, pre-eminently dear, — The gentle Lady married to the Moor; And heavenly... | |
 | 1860 - 600 pages
...say with 'Wordsworth, that he found in these things, " A substantial world both pure and good. Ronnd 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... | |
 | 1860 - 886 pages
...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 I love best ; Matter wherein... | |
 | sir John Simeon (3rd bart.) - 1860 - 84 pages
...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 that the pursuit which has been called the Bibliomania may be carried like any other... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...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 do I find a never-failing store Of personal themes, and such as I love best; Matter wherein right... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1864 - 540 pages
...We may find pleasure .......... BOOKS, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good ; Bound 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... | |
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