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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... ideas take such banal- ities for granted ... An original mind has no more re- spect for modern ideas than it has for any other ideas . All ideas are human . All are stamped with the sign- manuals of our race ; short - sightedness ...
... ideas take such banal- ities for granted ... An original mind has no more re- spect for modern ideas than it has for any other ideas . All ideas are human . All are stamped with the sign- manuals of our race ; short - sightedness ...
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... idea , capable of renewing the face of the earth . He elucidated it in an essay which he sent to editor after editor . At length , when his manuscript came back to him the twentieth time , he said to him- self : " My idea still seems ...
... idea , capable of renewing the face of the earth . He elucidated it in an essay which he sent to editor after editor . At length , when his manuscript came back to him the twentieth time , he said to him- self : " My idea still seems ...
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... ideas and techniques we have long since outgrown , like baby shoes and number ten col- lars . Looking back , as Virgil said to Dante , often en- courages a man , and I admit there is a source of harm- less complacency in the presence of ...
... ideas and techniques we have long since outgrown , like baby shoes and number ten col- lars . Looking back , as Virgil said to Dante , often en- courages a man , and I admit there is a source of harm- less complacency in the presence of ...
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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