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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... look up a few second - raters and to browse around among the curiosities of literature . Almost might we persuade ... looks like a whole one . Yet the abbe's dictum is a half truth which the infantile reader should swallow whole . The ...
... look up a few second - raters and to browse around among the curiosities of literature . Almost might we persuade ... looks like a whole one . Yet the abbe's dictum is a half truth which the infantile reader should swallow whole . The ...
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... look beyond petty interests , exag- gerated nationalism , scheming politicians and rapacious financiers to a Golden Age of brotherhood and univer- sal peace . An ideal visitor in the Upper Room , Horace grows on " Bulwer - Lytton's ...
... look beyond petty interests , exag- gerated nationalism , scheming politicians and rapacious financiers to a Golden Age of brotherhood and univer- sal peace . An ideal visitor in the Upper Room , Horace grows on " Bulwer - Lytton's ...
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... looks not beyond the mundane scene , for to him what men call the Kingdom of God is only here and now ; Thompson declares with Saint Paul that we have not here a lasting city but look for one to come . And that cleaving divergence in ...
... looks not beyond the mundane scene , for to him what men call the Kingdom of God is only here and now ; Thompson declares with Saint Paul that we have not here a lasting city but look for one to come . And that cleaving divergence in ...
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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