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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... course of his life , a man might sagely confess : " I greatly wanted to do thus and so ; I tried it and worked hard at it ; but here and now I quit , either because I've had enough of it , or because I am convinced I simply don't have ...
... course of his life , a man might sagely confess : " I greatly wanted to do thus and so ; I tried it and worked hard at it ; but here and now I quit , either because I've had enough of it , or because I am convinced I simply don't have ...
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... , especially in his Shakespeare course , was to call up the students one by one , indicate a section of the text and ask for its vocal rendition . The more we think about it the more we realize how 51 THE CHAIR BY THE WINDOW.
... , especially in his Shakespeare course , was to call up the students one by one , indicate a section of the text and ask for its vocal rendition . The more we think about it the more we realize how 51 THE CHAIR BY THE WINDOW.
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... course , and Liv- ing Upstairs is incomplete without the fireside mood . Even the best and finest books will disclose the life of man in but drab tones of black and gray unless the transfiguring fire of the imagination suffuse the ...
... course , and Liv- ing Upstairs is incomplete without the fireside mood . Even the best and finest books will disclose the life of man in but drab tones of black and gray unless the transfiguring fire of the imagination suffuse the ...
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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