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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... literary study ; they are less sagacious in permitting them to be studied in formalized and pedantic fashion , as jejune texts rather than as vibrant , pulsing pages from the Book of Life . Our study clubs would be well advised to ...
... literary study ; they are less sagacious in permitting them to be studied in formalized and pedantic fashion , as jejune texts rather than as vibrant , pulsing pages from the Book of Life . Our study clubs would be well advised to ...
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... literary executor and hero worshiper unashamed . Time has destroyed the point of some of Goethe's obiter dicta , but more of them are untouched by centuries and circumstance . Likewise , not to be missed is Saint Augustine's little ...
... literary executor and hero worshiper unashamed . Time has destroyed the point of some of Goethe's obiter dicta , but more of them are untouched by centuries and circumstance . Likewise , not to be missed is Saint Augustine's little ...
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... literary form and their unparalleled capac- ity for producing it . Indeed , unless we have read some of the Roman satirists , we don't know what satire at its best means . We imagine it means heavy - handed news- paper name - calling ...
... literary form and their unparalleled capac- ity for producing it . Indeed , unless we have read some of the Roman satirists , we don't know what satire at its best means . We imagine it means heavy - handed news- paper name - calling ...
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