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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... Beauty needs no argu- ments , " says W. Macneile Dixon , " for it is itself the strongest argument in the world ; and the work of art is a burning - glass which so concentrates the rays of beauty as to set the soul aflame . " 8 The ...
... Beauty needs no argu- ments , " says W. Macneile Dixon , " for it is itself the strongest argument in the world ; and the work of art is a burning - glass which so concentrates the rays of beauty as to set the soul aflame . " 8 The ...
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... beauty are never superseded . " Lyrics composed by a palaeolithic poet would still be moving , " Mr. Aldous Huxley truth- fully says . " But the views of a palaeolithic astronomer would possess , for us , but a merely historical and aca ...
... beauty are never superseded . " Lyrics composed by a palaeolithic poet would still be moving , " Mr. Aldous Huxley truth- fully says . " But the views of a palaeolithic astronomer would possess , for us , but a merely historical and aca ...
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... beauty . No mere prettiness , no mere paste and tinsel cleverness , the beauty of the Best People is virile and pervasive ; illuminating but not dazzling or shocking , it is splashed on " a ten - league canvas with brushes of comets ...
... beauty . No mere prettiness , no mere paste and tinsel cleverness , the beauty of the Best People is virile and pervasive ; illuminating but not dazzling or shocking , it is splashed on " a ten - league canvas with brushes of comets ...
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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