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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... light out after inspiration with a club . In the chair we sit back and take things slowly and indulge , it may be , in that fruitful day - dreaming which only the cultivated mind may profit by ; at the desk we lean forward , poised ...
... light out after inspiration with a club . In the chair we sit back and take things slowly and indulge , it may be , in that fruitful day - dreaming which only the cultivated mind may profit by ; at the desk we lean forward , poised ...
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... light , " says Aquinas , " everything is ugly . " As usual , the Greeks had a word for it - agalma , meaning literally a glory , an honor , a delight , and in Plato it stands for nobility , grandeur , gentility , sublimity in paint , in ...
... light , " says Aquinas , " everything is ugly . " As usual , the Greeks had a word for it - agalma , meaning literally a glory , an honor , a delight , and in Plato it stands for nobility , grandeur , gentility , sublimity in paint , in ...
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... - spair : " What do you mean by your mountainous fugues ? " And wraithlike against " yon forest of pipes " wryly smiles the face of Master Hugues . The organist sees him plainly enough , the light in his eyes , 184 LIVING UPSTAIRS.
... - spair : " What do you mean by your mountainous fugues ? " And wraithlike against " yon forest of pipes " wryly smiles the face of Master Hugues . The organist sees him plainly enough , the light in his eyes , 184 LIVING UPSTAIRS.
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