...PROFESSOR IN YALE COLLEGE. FOURTH EDITION, WITH AN INDEX. — and books -we know Are a iabstantial world, both pure and good ; Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our paitime and our happiness wilt grow. NEW YOKK: CHARLES SCRIBNER & CO. 1872. GlfT OF THE IOSTON ATHENAEUM...

...map of the whole world : thoughts, link by link, [gleam Enter through ears and eyesight, with such Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There find I personal themes, a plenteous Of all things, that at last in fear I shrink,...

...solace of a »ad life." " —and books we know Are a substantial world, both pure and gdod; Round them, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow." But what would any wealth be, which one might accumulate; what would any mental culture,...

...36 • 139 . 140 146 • 147 • 149 • 15° • '57 . 160 •• . NTRODUCTION. BOOKS we know Area substantial world, both pure and good Round these, with tendrils strong as and 1 ill,. ..I, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. Nor can I not believe but that hereby Great...

...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...

...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...as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. 1 ' The appetite for them grows by what it feeds on. They displace meaner tastes and recreations....

...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 good; Round...as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. and praising the poets—Shakespeare and Spenser specifically— The Poets who on earth...

...circumstances, the truth of Wordsworth's thought: Dreams, books, are each a world; and books we know Are a substantial world, 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...

...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...

...I prize above my dukedom. Wordsworth sings : Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, -we know, Are a substantial world both pure and good ; Round...as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. Half a lifetime spent in the laborious process of suppressing dacoity, pursuing malefactors,...