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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... Greek view of life : " Nothing in excess . " Not all the wise men lived in Greece , and through subsequent ages ... Greeks has never been allowed to pass unchallenged The Meaning of Culture , pp . 19 and 45 . who carries anything to ...
... Greek view of life : " Nothing in excess . " Not all the wise men lived in Greece , and through subsequent ages ... Greeks has never been allowed to pass unchallenged The Meaning of Culture , pp . 19 and 45 . who carries anything to ...
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... Greek models gave Latin writers standards of excellence and imitation taught them how to write . But in one genre the Latins showed real originality ; neither Greek literature nor literature in any other language offers anything ...
... Greek models gave Latin writers standards of excellence and imitation taught them how to write . But in one genre the Latins showed real originality ; neither Greek literature nor literature in any other language offers anything ...
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... Greek or Latin . Ade- quate enough prior to the rise of literature in the ver- nacular tongues of Europe , when indeed there were no Best People but Greeks and Romans - the Biblical clas- sics being held in a category of their own ...
... Greek or Latin . Ade- quate enough prior to the rise of literature in the ver- nacular tongues of Europe , when indeed there were no Best People but Greeks and Romans - the Biblical clas- sics being held in a category of their own ...
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A. R. Orage album ancestors beauty BOOKS AT BEDTIME Catholic centuries Chair Chambered Nautilus Chaucer cigar cigarette reader classic Cressida CURTAINS Dante Dorothy Sayers downstairs drama dream ease Edipus enjoy exalted eyes faith Family Portraits fancy fireplace Flat-Topped Desk freedom FRIENDLY PIPES friends Greek happiness heart Heaven heroes Homer Horace human Il Filostrato imagination immortal intellectual junk King L. T. Hobhouse Lady learned less literary literature Living Upstairs lovers man's matter means mellow ment mental mind Molière Montaigne mood moral nature never night once ourselves philosophy pipe smoker play poem poet poetry Preface to Morals Roman Saint sense Shakespeare smoke Sophocles soul spirit story strigil talk taste things thought tion translation Troilus truth Upper Room vision W. S. Gilbert walls Walter Lippmann Window wisdom words WORLD DROPS writing wrote