| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...more sweet; Whose mind is but the mind of his own eyes He is a Slave; the meanest we can meet ! Wing* have we, and as far as we can go We may find pleasure...that mood Which with the lofty sanctifies the low: 120 Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good... | |
| 1823 - 732 pages
...native delicacy, and a noble enthusiasm for supernatural cheer. — In it we see how — — — — — wilderness and wood, Blank ocean and mere sky, support...that mood, Which with the lofty sanctifies the low. But what need of my lean praise? — thou hast thy meed of fam« ; — higher hands have crowned tliee... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 pages
...they were never (like Rousseau's) excluded from the libraries of English Noblemen ! " Books, dreams are each 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." Let me then... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...they were never (like Rousseau's) excluded from the libraries of English Noblemen! " Books, dreams are each 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." Let me then... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 458 pages
...they were never (like Rousseau's) excluded from the libraries of English Noblemen ! " Books, dreams are each 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." Let me then... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 pages
...He is a Slave ; the meanest we can meet ! Personal WINGS have we, — and as far as we can go Talk We may find pleasure : wilderness and wood, Blank...world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strongasflesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There find I personal themes, a plenteous... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1836 - 536 pages
...their resources and intellectual improvements, multiply worlds. They can say— " Wings have we—and as far as we can go We may find pleasure: wilderness...that mood Which with the lofty sanctifies the low." These remarks may seem to apply rather to the man of science, or to him generally called a philosopher,... | |
| Horace Binney Wallace - 1838 - 264 pages
...the scenes that 1 have witnessed, and some of the acts that I have done. • « STANLEY. CHAPTER I. Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books we know...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. WORDSWORTH. • * I WAS born near the village of Merton, a small town in one of the Atlantic States,... | |
| Etienne-Léon baron de Lamothe-Langon - 1838 - 272 pages
...Wordsworth's noble lines'? 'Dreams, books, are each a world, and books we know Are a substantial word, both pure and good; Round these, with tendrils strong...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.' " THE SPIRIT OF THE EAST. BY URQUHART. 2 vols. EVENINGS WITH PRINCE CAMBACERES NAPOLEON MEMOIRS. EVENINGS... | |
| Johnstone - 1840 - 386 pages
...fourteen lines of delightful speculation upon the pleasures of thought and of literary study : — " Wings have we — and, as far as we can go, We may...support that mood Which, with the lofty, sanctifies the law. Dreams, books, are each a world, and books we know Are a substantial world, both pure and good... | |
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