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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... human family . They are " fed with the same food , hurt with the same weapons , subject to the same diseases , healed by the same means , warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer . " One is stronger than we , another more skilled ...
... human family . They are " fed with the same food , hurt with the same weapons , subject to the same diseases , healed by the same means , warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer . " One is stronger than we , another more skilled ...
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... human molds , what superbly balanced and capable worthies both of them would be ! And Don Quixote invites comparison with other classics . So it was that Turgenev saw in it and in Hamlet the crystallization of two eternal human types ...
... human molds , what superbly balanced and capable worthies both of them would be ! And Don Quixote invites comparison with other classics . So it was that Turgenev saw in it and in Hamlet the crystallization of two eternal human types ...
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... human and the spiritual , with a perhaps inevitable depreci- ation of " worldly " ways and interests , is to some ... human nature " ; but have we been wiser and more faithful to facts in idolizing human nature and with Rousseau ...
... human and the spiritual , with a perhaps inevitable depreci- ation of " worldly " ways and interests , is to some ... human nature " ; but have we been wiser and more faithful to facts in idolizing human nature and with Rousseau ...
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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