 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
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - 1886 - 432 pages
...British Museum, where they remain to illustrate the misfortunes of connoisseurship. — Athenœum . . . Books we know. Are a substantial world, both pure and good; Round which, with tendrils strong as Beeh and blood Our pastime and our hftpplneas will grow. 1886. ТЫЕ... | |
 | 1892 - 968 pages
...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...and good, Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh aud blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow." The appetite for them grows by what it feeds on.... | |
 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of the State of New York - 1887 - 364 pages
...treasures of the Craft are now available through the Grand Lodge Library. " Books are each a world ; and books we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good ; Round these, with tendrils strong as fiesh and blood, Our pastime and or.r happiness will grow." Nothing is a greater credit to Masonry... | |
 | 1888 - 252 pages
...books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind. Fuller. Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good ; Round those, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. Wordsworth.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 1016 pages
...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 pure...Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, bloom, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There find I personal themes, a plenteous store. Matter... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1889 - 586 pages
...is one way of showing our gratitude, and being even with him. " Books, dreams are each 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." Let me, then,... | |
 | 1913 - 456 pages
...here am I ! To such a work send me. — Edward Everett Hale. Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure...these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastimes and our happiness will grow. —Wordsworth. "Personal Talk." I have loved the feel of the... | |
 | Caroline Louisa Hunt - 1891 - 118 pages
...would not exchange it for the riches of the Indies. GIBBON. " Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books we know, Are a substantial world, both pure...these with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastimes and our happiness will grow." WORDSWORTH. Books are the food of youth, the delight of old... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1892 - 16 pages
...and honour of its founders that by its aid the monotony of these hours has been lightened or thoir tediousness beguiled. The greatest of meditative poets,...Are a substantial world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow." Assuredly... | |
 | 1892 - 622 pages
...learn, have found a master living a moral and a virtuous life, a student loving his books : — " And books we know " Are a substantial world, both pure..."Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood " Onr pastime and onr happiness will grow." Loving his books, not to strain and distort their meaning... | |
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