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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... Downstairs we greet the grocery boy , argue with the plumber , hire and fire the cook , dodge subscribing for ... Downstairs is the clamorous telephone ; upstairs is the restful favorite pipe . " Downstairs , " writes the urbane Abbé ...
... Downstairs we greet the grocery boy , argue with the plumber , hire and fire the cook , dodge subscribing for ... Downstairs is the clamorous telephone ; upstairs is the restful favorite pipe . " Downstairs , " writes the urbane Abbé ...
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... downstairs are absorbing , insistent , and downstairs activity yields prompt and practical results . To scrub the linoleum and wrest a rent reduction from the landlord are obvious and tangible achievements . To sit upstairs , thinking ...
... downstairs are absorbing , insistent , and downstairs activity yields prompt and practical results . To scrub the linoleum and wrest a rent reduction from the landlord are obvious and tangible achievements . To sit upstairs , thinking ...
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... downstairs world to become a dedicated spirit . Even Wordsworth , who coined that phrase , had his down- stairs occupations and embarrassments . Even Socrates tasted the tongue of Xantippe and the tang of the hem- lock . Even Francis of ...
... downstairs world to become a dedicated spirit . Even Wordsworth , who coined that phrase , had his down- stairs occupations and embarrassments . Even Socrates tasted the tongue of Xantippe and the tang of the hem- lock . Even Francis of ...
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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