 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, 35 Our pastime and our happiness will grow.  The Manchester Public Free Libraries: A History and Description, and Guide ... - Page 189by Manchester Public Libraries (Manchester, England), William Robert Credland - 1899 - 283 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Noah Porter - 1881 - 506 pages
...DD, LL.D PRESIDENT OF YALE COLLEGE. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING A SELECT CATALOGUE OF BOOKfi — and books we know Are a substantial world, both pure and good ; Round these, with tendrils strong as tieah and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. NEW YOKK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. 1891.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...that mood Which, with the lofty, sanctifies the low ; Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, wo thers aud blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There find I personal themes, a plenteous store... | |
 | Daniel M. Tredwell - 1881 - 184 pages
...companionship of good men, is an aesthetic sanctuary and a moral bulwark. As Wordsworth says — * * * " 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." I shall not,... | |
 | William Jolly - 1883 - 576 pages
...his desire." To him also in his lonely life, as to the poet, with special emphasis, books were — " A substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, His pastime and his happiness did grow. There found he themes, a plenteous store, Matter wherein right... | |
 | Voice, J. E. - 1883 - 212 pages
...does of a flower ; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it. — Colton. Books, value of. 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 grow. — Wordtworth.... | |
 | Book-lover - 1884 - 530 pages
...known to a man whose hours are insufficient for the inexhaustible pleasure of study. 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 will grow. I must confess... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1884 - 526 pages
...known to a man whose hours are insufficient for the inexhaustible pleasure of study. 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 will grow. I must confess... | |
 | John Francis Xavier O'Conor - 1885 - 64 pages
...treasure, SOMETHING TO READ. Fourth Thousand. I. LITERATURE OF TIME. "Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know Are a substantial world both pure and...these with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastimes and our happiness will grow." — Wordsworth. "Give a man a taste for reading, and the means... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 pages
...low . Dreams, books, are each a world; ind books, we know. Are a substantial world, both pure an ¡ good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness wi grow. There do I fmd a never-failing store Of personal themes, and such as I love best ; Matter... | |
 | Thomas Greenwood - 1886 - 522 pages
...themselves to place within the reach of all, those of which Wordsworth has so beautifully said — " 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 will grow." This problem... | |
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