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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... hour is an indispensable element to the art of Living Upstairs . There are seasons when it is needful and tonic to ... hours listening to the egoistic confessions of giving to others 74 LIVING UPSTAIRS.
... hour is an indispensable element to the art of Living Upstairs . There are seasons when it is needful and tonic to ... hours listening to the egoistic confessions of giving to others 74 LIVING UPSTAIRS.
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... hour waits when active life will call us , when devotion to duty and sense of social solidarity will drive us forth to labor and achieve ; but now , ripening our gifts and stirring the wellsprings of our being , we bask in the congenial ...
... hour waits when active life will call us , when devotion to duty and sense of social solidarity will drive us forth to labor and achieve ; but now , ripening our gifts and stirring the wellsprings of our being , we bask in the congenial ...
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... hour is a poetry hour . John Keats and Robert Burns , " Go , Lovely Rose " and " The Little Waves of Breffny , " Mr. John Masefield's " Cargoes " and Mr. Conrad Aiken's " Discordants " mean their most and give their best when read ...
... hour is a poetry hour . John Keats and Robert Burns , " Go , Lovely Rose " and " The Little Waves of Breffny , " Mr. John Masefield's " Cargoes " and Mr. Conrad Aiken's " Discordants " mean their most and give their best when read ...
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