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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... experience . Yet , as I accidentally discovered , the man who wrote those verses shunned heated rooms , he was never known to open a book other than the telephone directory , and at even the sight of a pipe smoked by somebody else he ...
... experience . Yet , as I accidentally discovered , the man who wrote those verses shunned heated rooms , he was never known to open a book other than the telephone directory , and at even the sight of a pipe smoked by somebody else he ...
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... experience with a paean of spiritual vision ; Newbolt , with prophetic perception booming out a ballad to steel men's hearts to fight and die inspired by race loyalty and the glamour of ancestral heroes - all of them , varied though ...
... experience with a paean of spiritual vision ; Newbolt , with prophetic perception booming out a ballad to steel men's hearts to fight and die inspired by race loyalty and the glamour of ancestral heroes - all of them , varied though ...
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... experiences , cheerful occupations . Books at Bedtime offer us all three . The habit of reading something worth reading before we go to sleep keeps our friendships worthy and enduring , our experiences so memorable as to be sources of ...
... experiences , cheerful occupations . Books at Bedtime offer us all three . The habit of reading something worth reading before we go to sleep keeps our friendships worthy and enduring , our experiences so memorable as to be sources 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