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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... less than Seneca , Dostoevski not less than Ovid . Every clas- sic author , be his race Roman or Scandinavian , his lan- guage Greek or German , his era five centuries before Christ or fifteen centuries after , is a citizen of 155 THE ...
... less than Seneca , Dostoevski not less than Ovid . Every clas- sic author , be his race Roman or Scandinavian , his lan- guage Greek or German , his era five centuries before Christ or fifteen centuries after , is a citizen of 155 THE ...
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... less and less , is amplified in the statement of a graduate student of English Literature : " I know nothing whatever about eighteenth - century writers ; my field extends only from the Restoration to the death of Dryden . " That gentle ...
... less and less , is amplified in the statement of a graduate student of English Literature : " I know nothing whatever about eighteenth - century writers ; my field extends only from the Restoration to the death of Dryden . " That gentle ...
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... less wise is he , the more he apprehends the less he comprehends . Then he sleeps beneath a slab of conventionality , and Cow- per composed his epitaph : " Knowledge and wisdom , far from being one , Have ofttimes no connection ...
... less wise is he , the more he apprehends the less he comprehends . Then he sleeps beneath a slab of conventionality , and Cow- per composed his epitaph : " Knowledge and wisdom , far from being one , Have ofttimes no connection ...
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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