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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... practical issues . He was no dreamer when at Oxford he wrote on the necessity of atheism and suffered the practical consequence of expulsion from the university . Nor had there been anything re- mote and starry - eyed in his ...
... practical issues . He was no dreamer when at Oxford he wrote on the necessity of atheism and suffered the practical consequence of expulsion from the university . Nor had there been anything re- mote and starry - eyed in his ...
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... practical psychology and most of nature of the literary process are disclosed in the evolution of the Trojan lady so fair , so fickle and so frail . The merest germ of the Cressida story occurs in Homer . In the twenty - fourth book of ...
... practical psychology and most of nature of the literary process are disclosed in the evolution of the Trojan lady so fair , so fickle and so frail . The merest germ of the Cressida story occurs in Homer . In the twenty - fourth book of ...
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... practical suggestions . He never abandoned his Catholic faith ; neither did he conspicuously practice it . Yet he pos- sessed sufficient devotional fervor to get up early to secure his first sight of the city of Rome at dawn , and he ...
... practical suggestions . He never abandoned his Catholic faith ; neither did he conspicuously practice it . Yet he pos- sessed sufficient devotional fervor to get up early to secure his first sight of the city of Rome at dawn , and he ...
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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