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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... fireplace is a theater in little ; the fire dogs are caparisoned trumpeters heralding the opening of the show , the tongs and the shovel are obsequious ush- ers , the screen is the proscenium curtain and the grate is a stage whereon ...
... fireplace is a theater in little ; the fire dogs are caparisoned trumpeters heralding the opening of the show , the tongs and the shovel are obsequious ush- ers , the screen is the proscenium curtain and the grate is a stage whereon ...
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... fireplace log ; it is the sad symbol of so much tragedy in literature and in life . When the hysteria of the war spirit , fanned by lust and greed , grips a people and fills a nation with its alarms , who of us but is not burnt and ...
... fireplace log ; it is the sad symbol of so much tragedy in literature and in life . When the hysteria of the war spirit , fanned by lust and greed , grips a people and fills a nation with its alarms , who of us but is not burnt and ...
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... fireplace is merely a slightly anachronistic domestic appurtenance ; but we know better . It is a magic casement , the Eastern Window of imagination . When we look long and earnestly into its glowing coals we witness epic dramas and ...
... fireplace is merely a slightly anachronistic domestic appurtenance ; but we know better . It is a magic casement , the Eastern Window of imagination . When we look long and earnestly into its glowing coals we witness epic dramas and ...
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