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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... faith , pessimism -or else motley - is your only wear . But the hopeless- ness is mollified by an underlying serenity . No taint is here of impotent protest , of infantile defiance . The " good pagan , " past or present , has at least ...
... faith , pessimism -or else motley - is your only wear . But the hopeless- ness is mollified by an underlying serenity . No taint is here of impotent protest , of infantile defiance . The " good pagan , " past or present , has at least ...
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... faith : " Is my gloom , after all , Shade of His hand , outstretched caressingly ? " And at length the untiring voice of enduring love speaks : " Ah , fondest , blindest , weakest , I am He whom thou seekest ! Thou dravest love from ...
... faith : " Is my gloom , after all , Shade of His hand , outstretched caressingly ? " And at length the untiring voice of enduring love speaks : " Ah , fondest , blindest , weakest , I am He whom thou seekest ! Thou dravest love from ...
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... faith of a Christian , the mind of a sceptic and the body of a pagan . " Assuming the truth of that pithy characteriza- tion , we can see that Montaigne was much like many of us today , and that therefore his efforts to harmonize the ...
... faith of a Christian , the mind of a sceptic and the body of a pagan . " Assuming the truth of that pithy characteriza- tion , we can see that Montaigne was much like many of us today , and that therefore his efforts to harmonize 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