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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... reader should swallow whole . The only readers who may advantageously dip into frothy , trivial and unsubstantial books are the men and women who have reached their intellectual years of dis- cretion and who have already read and ...
... reader should swallow whole . The only readers who may advantageously dip into frothy , trivial and unsubstantial books are the men and women who have reached their intellectual years of dis- cretion and who have already read and ...
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... readers are seldom intellec- tual - if you know what I mean , as the English say . And if you are a cigarette reader you won't . As for the cigar , it best suits the man who lolls in the Chair by the Window , preferably after a good ...
... readers are seldom intellec- tual - if you know what I mean , as the English say . And if you are a cigarette reader you won't . As for the cigar , it best suits the man who lolls in the Chair by the Window , preferably after a good ...
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... reader will enjoy them too , but the pipe reader will get to the bottom of them and strike pay ore . And well up on our list should come Kipling's Just So Stories . These cautionary tales for children the cigarette reader will scarce ...
... reader will enjoy them too , but the pipe reader will get to the bottom of them and strike pay ore . And well up on our list should come Kipling's Just So Stories . These cautionary tales for children the cigarette reader will scarce ...
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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