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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... enjoy symphonies , revel in poetry , talk with Becky Sharp and Mr. Pickwick , walk with Oberon the Fairy King and Dogberry the constable . Upstairs we put our minds alongside the minds of Cicero , Bacon , Sainte - Beuve . Upstairs ...
... enjoy symphonies , revel in poetry , talk with Becky Sharp and Mr. Pickwick , walk with Oberon the Fairy King and Dogberry the constable . Upstairs we put our minds alongside the minds of Cicero , Bacon , Sainte - Beuve . Upstairs ...
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... enjoy God , ' independently of their acts of social kindness . But our poor modern vic- tims of ' service ' seem to be permitted no respite . From person to person , from group to group they move , let- ting their spiritual life - blood ...
... enjoy God , ' independently of their acts of social kindness . But our poor modern vic- tims of ' service ' seem to be permitted no respite . From person to person , from group to group they move , let- ting their spiritual life - blood ...
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... enjoy its pictures and savor its pageantry , but two things are necessary . Like the blind beggar in Stuart Walker's Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil , we must see with our ears - with remembrance of things past ; and we must re ...
... enjoy its pictures and savor its pageantry , but two things are necessary . Like the blind beggar in Stuart Walker's Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil , we must see with our ears - with remembrance of things past ; and we must re ...
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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