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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... heart speaks to heart , and of silence more speaking than speech . Downstairs persuades to bigotry and narrowness and calculated cunning ; upstairs we rise to understanding , graciousness and wisdom . Down- stairs calls for the brain ...
... heart speaks to heart , and of silence more speaking than speech . Downstairs persuades to bigotry and narrowness and calculated cunning ; upstairs we rise to understanding , graciousness and wisdom . Down- stairs calls for the brain ...
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... heart the voice Of mountain - torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery , its rocks , Its woods , and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake . " The books we ...
... heart the voice Of mountain - torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery , its rocks , Its woods , and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake . " The books we ...
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... heart and saints ' images in his peaked hat , the unkingly king who with all his unscrupulous cunning saved the mon- archy and re - created France . His tale is told in Scott's Quentin Durward ; more amply and sympathetically in D. B. ...
... heart and saints ' images in his peaked hat , the unkingly king who with all his unscrupulous cunning saved the mon- archy and re - created France . His tale is told in Scott's Quentin Durward ; more amply and sympathetically in D. B. ...
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accept ancestors beauty bedtime better centuries Chair Chambered Nautilus classic comes course Cressida death downstairs ease enjoy experience eyes face faith feel fire fireplace Flat-Topped Desk freedom friends give Greek hand happy heart Heaven hold hour human ideas imagination impression intellectual interest Italy junk keep King knowledge language learned least less light literary literature Living Upstairs look man's matter means ment mental mind moral nature never night once ourselves personality philosophy pipe play poem poet portraits practical present reader reason Roman Saint sense Shakespeare social soul speak spirit story sure talk taste tell things thinking thought tion translation true truth turn universal Upper Room vision walls Window wisdom women writing wrote young