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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... keeping the mind focused on the cumulative im- pact of a group of sentences . From victims of mental malnutrition ... keep us glued to our seat at the Flat - Topped Desk . One of them is the study of foreign languages . I am diffident ...
... keeping the mind focused on the cumulative im- pact of a group of sentences . From victims of mental malnutrition ... keep us glued to our seat at the Flat - Topped Desk . One of them is the study of foreign languages . I am diffident ...
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... keep it in a leather pouch or a glass or metal jar becomingly moistened with a rum- soaked sponge or a hunk of apple . Filling your pipe is both science and art - loose at the bottom , tamped tight on top ; and smoking it , too , for ...
... keep it in a leather pouch or a glass or metal jar becomingly moistened with a rum- soaked sponge or a hunk of apple . Filling your pipe is both science and art - loose at the bottom , tamped tight on top ; and smoking it , too , for ...
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... keeping . Many of the books on our shelves are of utterly no use to us . Barren fig trees , why cumber they the ground ? Emerson held that a man should know how to keep his friendships in repair . Certainly a man cannot be Liv- ing ...
... keeping . Many of the books on our shelves are of utterly no use to us . Barren fig trees , why cumber they the ground ? Emerson held that a man should know how to keep his friendships in repair . Certainly a man cannot be Liv- ing ...
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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