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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... sense , " allusions to " the labor of the file , " never appreciating the fact that adult minds are accustomed to recognize and rel- ish evidences that the man who writes a book has had a good time reading books written by other men ...
... sense , " allusions to " the labor of the file , " never appreciating the fact that adult minds are accustomed to recognize and rel- ish evidences that the man who writes a book has had a good time reading books written by other men ...
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... sense smokes a cigar feverishly . It takes steady nerves , a eupeptic philosophy of life and good diges- tion that waits on appetite . Many excellent books are like cigars . They are to be read leisurely and for hours at a session ...
... sense smokes a cigar feverishly . It takes steady nerves , a eupeptic philosophy of life and good diges- tion that waits on appetite . Many excellent books are like cigars . They are to be read leisurely and for hours at a session ...
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... sense ; to him books are things to catalogue and classify , to use as counters in some intellectual game or to display in show cases to wondering rustics ranged around . However , and at the risk of offending my pipe read- ers , I ...
... sense ; to him books are things to catalogue and classify , to use as counters in some intellectual game or to display in show cases to wondering rustics ranged around . However , and at the risk of offending my pipe read- ers , I ...
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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