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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... tell us , not the least acceptable way of fitting our- selves for the future - whatever the future may bring- is to learn to live deeply , humbly and joyously today . Here begins a New Life . The New Life embodies the fullness of what ...
... tell us , not the least acceptable way of fitting our- selves for the future - whatever the future may bring- is to learn to live deeply , humbly and joyously today . Here begins a New Life . The New Life embodies the fullness of what ...
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... tell us how to use words ; but it will tell us , when he used such and such a word , what a writer really had in his mind . For instance , on page 87 of Richard Aldington's Life for Life's Sake , we read : " With a feeling of exaltation ...
... tell us how to use words ; but it will tell us , when he used such and such a word , what a writer really had in his mind . For instance , on page 87 of Richard Aldington's Life for Life's Sake , we read : " With a feeling of exaltation ...
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... thumb stuffs into a pipe - what stories it might tell of love and greed , of joy and grief , of hope deferred and rifts within the lute of friendship . Spring- ing like the tobacco plant from the soil , the 121 THOSE FRIENDLY PIPES.
... thumb stuffs into a pipe - what stories it might tell of love and greed , of joy and grief , of hope deferred and rifts within the lute of friendship . Spring- ing like the tobacco plant from the soil , the 121 THOSE FRIENDLY PIPES.
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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