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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... fireplace is a theater in little ; the fire dogs are caparisoned trumpeters heralding the opening of the show , the tongs and the shovel are obsequious ush- ers , the screen is the proscenium curtain and the grate is a stage whereon ...
... fireplace is a theater in little ; the fire dogs are caparisoned trumpeters heralding the opening of the show , the tongs and the shovel are obsequious ush- ers , the screen is the proscenium curtain and the grate is a stage whereon ...
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... Fireplace not less than the Flat - Topped Desk . Literary study means work , yes ; it also means the play of fancy , the quicken- ing of imagination , the deepening and enriching of our capacity to body forth the forms of things unknown ...
... Fireplace not less than the Flat - Topped Desk . Literary study means work , yes ; it also means the play of fancy , the quicken- ing of imagination , the deepening and enriching of our capacity to body forth the forms of things unknown ...
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... fireplace is merely a slightly anachronistic domestic appurtenance ; but we know better . It is a magic casement , the Eastern Window of imagination . When we look long and earnestly into its glowing coals we witness epic dramas and ...
... fireplace is merely a slightly anachronistic domestic appurtenance ; but we know better . It is a magic casement , the Eastern Window of imagination . When we look long and earnestly into its glowing coals we witness epic dramas and ...
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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