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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... means middling , so- so , commonplace , run of the mill , not - as it ought to mean - self - contained , moderate , devoid of what Shake- speare described as wasteful and ridiculous excess . And 4 Y. Y. , “ In Praise of Temperance ...
... means middling , so- so , commonplace , run of the mill , not - as it ought to mean - self - contained , moderate , devoid of what Shake- speare described as wasteful and ridiculous excess . And 4 Y. Y. , “ In Praise of Temperance ...
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... means work , yes ; it also means the play of fancy , the quicken- ing of imagination , the deepening and enriching of our capacity to body forth the forms of things unknown . No idler's refuge is the wing chair before the fire ; it is a ...
... means work , yes ; it also means the play of fancy , the quicken- ing of imagination , the deepening and enriching of our capacity to body forth the forms of things unknown . No idler's refuge is the wing chair before the fire ; it is a ...
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... means more than music ; it means images and ideas and overtones and connota- tions which contribute to harmony in our personality and our influence . We are born in discord and usually brought up therein , like some strange creature who ...
... means more than music ; it means images and ideas and overtones and connota- tions which contribute to harmony in our personality and our influence . We are born in discord and usually brought up therein , like some strange creature who ...
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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