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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... future has not been realized . Is we have not learned how to dream constru As now we gaze thoughtfully into the gra behold another quickened form , Wordswo dared to dream amid " ye cliffs And islands of Winander ! " He 91.
... future has not been realized . Is we have not learned how to dream constru As now we gaze thoughtfully into the gra behold another quickened form , Wordswo dared to dream amid " ye cliffs And islands of Winander ! " He 91.
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... learned English history from Shakespeare . Hence that lecturer talked sense who confessed , " I learned more from Thackeray than I learned in college . ” Hence an unnamed reader deepened and enriched his life by reading Homer every year ...
... learned English history from Shakespeare . Hence that lecturer talked sense who confessed , " I learned more from Thackeray than I learned in college . ” Hence an unnamed reader deepened and enriched his life by reading Homer every year ...
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... learned and human associations . Like a house that has been lived in for generations , the great book gathers to itself the intangible effluence of the personalities of its read- ers . " Music I heard with you was more than music . " 5 ...
... learned and human associations . Like a house that has been lived in for generations , the great book gathers to itself the intangible effluence of the personalities of its read- ers . " Music I heard with you was more than music . " 5 ...
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