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" 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 find I personal themes, a plenteous store ; Matter wherein right voluble I am "
The Praise of Books: As Said and Sung by English Authors - Page 113
1880 - 165 pages
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Poems in 2 Vols., Reprinted Original Ed. of 1807 Ed. with Note on ..., Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...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:...tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and oar happiness will grow. There do I find a never-failing store Of personal themes, and such as I love...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1819 - 368 pages
...? Well does a certain writer exclaim— " Books are a real world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow! " Richardson's wit was unlike that of any other writer—his humour was so too. Both were...
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The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, Volume 3

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 362 pages
...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:...blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There db I find a never-failing store Of personal themes, and such as I love best; Matter wherein right voluble...
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The Bachelor's Wife: A Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, with ...

John Galt - Scotland - 1824 - 470 pages
...? Well does a modern writer exclaim,— ' Books are a real world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow !' " Richardson's wit was unlike that of any other writer ;—his humour was so too. Both...
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The Bachelor's Wife: A Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, with ...

John Galt - Scotland - 1824 - 462 pages
...? Well does a modern writer exclaim,— ' Books are a real world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow !' " Richardson's wit was unlike that of any other writer ;—his humour was so too. Both...
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The Bachelor's Wife: A Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, with ...

John Galt - Scotland - 1824 - 474 pages
...? Well does a modern writer exclaim,— ' Books are a real world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow !' " Richardson's wit was unlike that of any other writer ;—his humour was so too. Both...
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The Bachelor's Wife: A Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, with ...

John Galt - 1824 - 464 pages
...? Well does a modern writer exclaim,— ' Books are a real world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness may grow !' " Richardson's wit was unlike that of any other writer ;—his humour was so too. Both...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 464 pages
...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 have grown." If we are repelled after a while by familiarity, or when the first gloss of novelty wears...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...that mood Which with the lofty sanctifies the low. Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we kn< Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and bio Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There find I personal themes, a plenteous store; Matter...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...we kao 1 Are a substantial world, both pure und good; Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh nod blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There find I personal themes, a plenteous store; Meiner wherein right voluble I am : To which 1 listen with a ready ear; Two shall be named, pre-eminently...
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