| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 páginas
...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,...will grow. There find I personal themes, a plenteous Of all things, that at last in fear I shrink, ! Matter wherein right voluble I am : And leap at once... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1892 - 802 páginas
...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...blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.'' The appetite for them grows by what it feeds on. They displace meaner tastes and recreations. By bringing... | |
| Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1922 - 576 páginas
...one finds Wordsworth 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 blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. and praising the poets—Shakespeare and Spenser specifically— The Poets who on earth have made us... | |
| 1905 - 280 páginas
...victims of unfortunate 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... | |
| 1909 - 1078 páginas
...immortal, shall never die, but shall serve, and be loved by the children of men 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... | |
| 1923 - 1004 páginas
...library, with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. Wordsworth sings : Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, -we know, Are a substantial world both...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. Half a lifetime spent in the laborious process of suppressing dacoity, pursuing malefactors, and generally... | |
| Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - 1985 - 272 páginas
...hundred-handed giant who sided with Zens in the Olympians' war against Briareus's fellow-Titans. for books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure...flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.2 Fiction has yet another claim to our regard as a vehicle for the transmission of opinion; the... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 páginas
...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...voluble I am, To which I listen with a ready ear; 40 Two shall be named, pre-eminently dear, The gentle Lady married to the Moor; And heavenly Una with... | |
| John Y Cole, Henry Hope Reed - 1997 - 330 páginas
...Studies perfect nature and are perfected by experience. — Bacon Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. — Wordsworth Learning is but an adjunct to ourself. — Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost — Pope... | |
| Grant Hardy - 1999 - 336 páginas
...very existence, it seeks to change that world. REPRESENTING THE WORLD Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know Are a substantial world, both pure and good. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, "Personal Talk" Historical writing in the West begins with the inquiries (historia)... | |
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