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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... translation Quintus Horatius Flaccus is a grand man to know . Even in translation we can catch his flashings of humor and fancy , we can share his genial wisdom , his considerable learning , his profound respect for the writing art ; we ...
... translation Quintus Horatius Flaccus is a grand man to know . Even in translation we can catch his flashings of humor and fancy , we can share his genial wisdom , his considerable learning , his profound respect for the writing art ; we ...
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... translations of Horace are like canned peas or canned music . The generous Falernian wine re- tains all of its body , much of its potency ; it loses its delicate bouquet . Yet , even in translation , Horace lives on . The most starkly ...
... translations of Horace are like canned peas or canned music . The generous Falernian wine re- tains all of its body , much of its potency ; it loses its delicate bouquet . Yet , even in translation , Horace lives on . The most starkly ...
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... translation and Catholics in a translation of a transla- tion . Like all true literature , the wisdom books cut through the surface of life and concentrate on the un- changing depths . Many of their verses printed in this morning's ...
... translation and Catholics in a translation of a transla- tion . Like all true literature , the wisdom books cut through the surface of life and concentrate on the un- changing depths . Many of their verses printed in this morning's ...
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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