Living Upstairs: Reading for Profit and PleasureE. P. Dutton & Company, Incorporated, 1942 - 256 Seiten The author uses the idea of decorating and furnishing an upper room in one's house as an allegory for developing reading habits for profit and recreation. |
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... Cressida . Then came a story in Latin prose , Historia Trojana , by Guida delle Colonne , a magistrate of Messina , a compilation and adaptation of Benoit's poem . Cressida was by now an integral element in the Troy legend . And thus ...
... Cressida . Then came a story in Latin prose , Historia Trojana , by Guida delle Colonne , a magistrate of Messina , a compilation and adaptation of Benoit's poem . Cressida was by now an integral element in the Troy legend . And thus ...
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... Cressida never fared better than in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde ; she is a kindly and sympathetic widow , possessed of a generous heart and an active if ineffectual conscience - a woman infinitely alien to Boc- caccio's superficially ...
... Cressida never fared better than in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde ; she is a kindly and sympathetic widow , possessed of a generous heart and an active if ineffectual conscience - a woman infinitely alien to Boc- caccio's superficially ...
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... Cressida theme . His Troilus and Cressida is classed among his so - called problem plays , the " unpleasant " plays , of which All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure are representative in their bitterness , their savage irony ...
... Cressida theme . His Troilus and Cressida is classed among his so - called problem plays , the " unpleasant " plays , of which All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure are representative in their bitterness , their savage irony ...
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A. R. Orage album ancestors beauty bedtime BOOKS AT BEDTIME centuries Chair Chambered Nautilus Chaucer cigar classic corporate junk Cressida Dante delights downstairs drama ease Edipus emotional enjoy eyes faith Family Portraits fancy fireplace Flat-Topped Desk freedom friends Greek happy heart Heaven heroes Homer Horace human Il Filostrato immortal immortal books intellectual Julius Caesar King L. T. Hobhouse learned less literary literature Living Upstairs Lucretius man's means mellow ment mental mind Molière Montaigne mood moral nature ness never night once ourselves philosophy pipe pipe smoker play poem poet poetry Preface to Morals reader Roman Saint sense Shakespeare Shifting the Furniture silence smoke Sophocles soul spirit story strigil taste temper things thinking thought tion translation Troilus Trojan Troy truth Upper Room verse vision W. S. Gilbert Window wisdom words writing wrote