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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... universal peace and work bravely and untiringly for its winning ! Verily , without vision the people perish . The poets , so frequently prophets , have discerned in the fireplace of fancy the far - off divine event ; in every age they ...
... universal peace and work bravely and untiringly for its winning ! Verily , without vision the people perish . The poets , so frequently prophets , have discerned in the fireplace of fancy the far - off divine event ; in every age they ...
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... universal favor and was an integral item in the songs , contes , and the popular histories of Lydgate and Caxton . In particular , there were two versions of the Troy story long recognized as authoritative . One was Ephemeris Belli ...
... universal favor and was an integral item in the songs , contes , and the popular histories of Lydgate and Caxton . In particular , there were two versions of the Troy story long recognized as authoritative . One was Ephemeris Belli ...
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... universal truth : Every race tends to perpetuate the prowess and fidelity of her stalwart sons ; she canonizes them , makes them culture heroes and demi - gods . She cherishes the wishful belief - often but dimly formulated - that in ...
... universal truth : Every race tends to perpetuate the prowess and fidelity of her stalwart sons ; she canonizes them , makes them culture heroes and demi - gods . She cherishes the wishful belief - often but dimly formulated - that in ...
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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