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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... impression of reality and beauty , a vision splendid in garments goodly and subdued , an intimation of the magnitude , the glory , the dazzling wonder and wild desire of being human and being alive . This earth is not a blot to us , a ...
... impression of reality and beauty , a vision splendid in garments goodly and subdued , an intimation of the magnitude , the glory , the dazzling wonder and wild desire of being human and being alive . This earth is not a blot to us , a ...
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... impression of having been indited in evening clothes . Cigar books are often novels , though not tense , frenetic , class - conscious ones ; for instance , Hervey Allen's An- thony Adverse . But pipes ! The rationale of sane and ...
... impression of having been indited in evening clothes . Cigar books are often novels , though not tense , frenetic , class - conscious ones ; for instance , Hervey Allen's An- thony Adverse . But pipes ! The rationale of sane and ...
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... impression of vital reality which for want of a more fitting word men call beauty . No mere prettiness , no mere paste and tinsel cleverness , the beauty of the Best People is virile and pervasive ; illuminating but not dazzling or ...
... impression of vital reality which for want of a more fitting word men call beauty . No mere prettiness , no mere paste and tinsel cleverness , the beauty of the Best People is virile and pervasive ; illuminating but not dazzling or ...
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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