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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... friends venturing for the first time overseas are well advised to keep to beaten tracks . A globe trotter who attained to professional status was the late Rudolph Block , better known by his pen name of Bruno Lessing . Once a high ...
... friends venturing for the first time overseas are well advised to keep to beaten tracks . A globe trotter who attained to professional status was the late Rudolph Block , better known by his pen name of Bruno Lessing . Once a high ...
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... friends allow what they are to overflow into what they say ; and sitting with them before the fire we are wiser and better men . Such a friend , an accomplished and civilized Man of the World , we welcome tonight . Though he comes to ...
... friends allow what they are to overflow into what they say ; and sitting with them before the fire we are wiser and better men . Such a friend , an accomplished and civilized Man of the World , we welcome tonight . Though he comes to ...
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... friends : " They lived for many years on that inhospitable shore , And day by day they learned to love each other ... friend Robinson , " Con- demned to seven years for misappropriating stock . " Left to their solitude , each derelict ...
... friends : " They lived for many years on that inhospitable shore , And day by day they learned to love each other ... friend Robinson , " Con- demned to seven years for misappropriating stock . " Left to their solitude , each derelict ...
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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