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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... heart speaks to heart , and of silence more speaking than speech . Downstairs persuades to bigotry and narrowness and calculated cunning ; upstairs we rise to understanding , graciousness and wisdom . Down- stairs calls for the brain ...
... heart speaks to heart , and of silence more speaking than speech . Downstairs persuades to bigotry and narrowness and calculated cunning ; upstairs we rise to understanding , graciousness and wisdom . Down- stairs calls for the brain ...
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... heart the voice Of mountain - torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery , its rocks , Its woods , and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake . " The books we ...
... heart the voice Of mountain - torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery , its rocks , Its woods , and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake . " The books we ...
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... heart and saints ' images in his peaked hat , the unkingly king who with all his unscrupulous cunning saved the mon- archy and re - created France . His tale is told in Scott's Quentin Durward ; more amply and sympathetically in D. B. ...
... heart and saints ' images in his peaked hat , the unkingly king who with all his unscrupulous cunning saved the mon- archy and re - created France . His tale is told in Scott's Quentin Durward ; more amply and sympathetically in D. B. ...
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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