 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pagina’s
...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. There do I find a never-failing store Of personal themes, and such as I love best ; Matter... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pagina’s
...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. There do I find a never-falling store Of personal themes, and such as I love best;. Matter... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagina’s
...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. There do I find a never-failing store Of personal themes, and such as I love best ; Matter... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagina’s
...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. There do I find a never-failing store Of personal themes, and such as I love best ; Matter... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 pagina’s
...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. There do I find a never-failing store Of personal themes, and such as I love best ; Matter... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pagina’s
...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...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow. * * ****** Two let me mention dearer than the rest, The gentle lady wedded to the Moor, And heavenly... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pagina’s
...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...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow. * * ****** Two let me mention dearer than the rest, The gentle lady wedded to the Moor, And heavenly... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 474 pagina’s
...heart-breaking reflection that Clarissa makes on what •was to have been her wedding-day ? Well does a modern writer exclaim,— ' Books are a real world, both...so too. Both were the effect of intense activity of mind;—laboured, and yet completely effectual. We might refer to Lovelace's reception and description... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 468 pagina’s
...heart-breaking reflection that Clarissa makes on what was to have been her wedding-day ? Well does a modern writer exclaim, — ' Books are a real world, both...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow 1' " Richardson's wit was unlike that of any other writer ; — his humour was so too. Both were the... | |
 | 1825 - 668 pagina’s
...scenes, or hanker after those we have never seen, we also like old books, old faces, old haunts, " Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow." If we are repelled after a while by familiarity, or when the first gloss of novelty wears ofT, we are... | |
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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. 
