 | Francis Jacox - 1873 - 490 halaman
...dreams, are both a world ; and 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 may grow. * * * » 2i8 THE OLD FRIENDS WHO ARE Two let me mention dearer than the rest, The gentle... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 halaman
...yore. Ibid. Maidens withering on the stalk. Personal Talh. S(.i. Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.. The gentle Lady married to the Moor, And heavenly Una with her milk-white Lamb. Ibid. St, 3. Blessings... | |
 | 1903 - 912 halaman
...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 - 802 halaman
...indispensable for teaching the young the use and value of books. In the felicitous lines of Wordsworth: " Books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure...blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.'' The appetite for them grows by what it feeds on. They displace meaner tastes and recreations. By bringing... | |
 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1922 - 576 halaman
...one finds Wordsworth paying tribute to books in words such as these: Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know Are a substantial world, both pure...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 halaman
...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 halaman
...library, with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. Wordsworth sings : Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, -we know, Are a substantial world both...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 - 272 halaman
...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...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 halaman
...mere sky, support that mood Which with the lofty sanctifies the low. Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both...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... | |
 | Laura Stoddart - 2001 - 100 halaman
...reading. )ohn Keats (1795-1 821) in a letter to his sister, Fanny Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) from Personal Talk People say that life is the thing, but I prefer books.... | |
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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. 
