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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... mental health by swallowing either poison or swill . It calls for appropriate preparation ; good writers are skilled chefs who serve our mental aliment in palatable form . And then , as Bacon said , it must be chewed and digested ...
... mental health by swallowing either poison or swill . It calls for appropriate preparation ; good writers are skilled chefs who serve our mental aliment in palatable form . And then , as Bacon said , it must be chewed and digested ...
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... mental warren when the fields lie fallow in the sunlight and the distant mountains lift their calm foreheads in the half - revealing mist ? At all times the ideal of Living Upstairs is to establish balance between two opposing urges ...
... mental warren when the fields lie fallow in the sunlight and the distant mountains lift their calm foreheads in the half - revealing mist ? At all times the ideal of Living Upstairs is to establish balance between two opposing urges ...
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... mental attitudes are ever vital because they are touched with the perdurable essence of eter- nity . Others , once formative and significant , lie along the littoral of the spirit like rotting hulks upon a salt- stung beach . Yet others ...
... mental attitudes are ever vital because they are touched with the perdurable essence of eter- nity . Others , once formative and significant , lie along the littoral of the spirit like rotting hulks upon a salt- stung beach . Yet others ...
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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