| English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...mood Which, with the lofty, sanctifies the low. [know,Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we 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 find I personal themes, a plenteous store, Matter wherein... | |
| A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...wilderness and wood, Blank ocean and mere sky, support that mood Which with the lofty sanctifies the low. Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,...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... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1841 - 778 pages
...wilderness and wood, Blank ocean and mere sky, support that mood Which with the lofty sanctifies the low. Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know,...these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There find 1 personal themes, a plenteous store ; Matter wherein... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Frontier and pioneer life - 1842 - 262 pages
...wilderness and wood, Blank ocean and 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 pure and good ; Ronnd these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. WORDSWORTH.... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Frontier and pioneer life - 1842 - 372 pages
...sanctifies the low. Dreams, hooks, are each a world ; and hooks, we know, Are a suhstantial world hoth pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow." WORDSWORTH. IT can hardly be necessary for me to confess that... | |
| Hints - 1843 - 344 pages
...wilderness and wood, Blank ocean and mere sky, support that mood, Which with the lofty sanctifies the low; Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books we know...these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow, There find I personal themes Great gains are mine, for thus I... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...wilderness and wood, Blank ocean and mere sky, support that mood Which with the lofty sanetifies the low. Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know,...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... | |
| Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...hollowness and heartlessness of worldly society ; there are none of us but may rejoice to know that " Books, Are a suBstantial world, both pure and good. Round...these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow." In this so hollow, but solid-seeming world, good books are almost... | |
| Periodicals - 1845 - 688 pages
...hollowness and heartlessness of worldly society ; there are none of us but may rejoice to know that " Books, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round...these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow." In this so hollow, but solid-seeming < world, good books are almost... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 pages
...has expressed this sentiment well (perhaps I have borrowed it from him) — " Books, 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. ****** Two... | |
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