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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... poet . The young man was William Butler Yeats and he tells the story in his own inimitable way : " When walking ... poets he had learned how to write by imitating other poets ; but on that day in un- familiar London the sound of falling ...
... poet . The young man was William Butler Yeats and he tells the story in his own inimitable way : " When walking ... poets he had learned how to write by imitating other poets ; but on that day in un- familiar London the sound of falling ...
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... poet expressed his indebtedness to the Italian poet in a series of sonnets which claim place among his noblest verse . The Commedia was to him a vast cathe- dral of the human soul . Pausing at its portal he laid down his burden and ...
... poet expressed his indebtedness to the Italian poet in a series of sonnets which claim place among his noblest verse . The Commedia was to him a vast cathe- dral of the human soul . Pausing at its portal he laid down his burden and ...
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... poet , Robert Henryson , in ment of Cresseid , gave a novel twist to the T In Boccaccio and Chaucer , Troilus , discoverin faithfulness of Cressida , in desperation goes fight the Greeks and receives an honorable b wound . Henryson has ...
... poet , Robert Henryson , in ment of Cresseid , gave a novel twist to the T In Boccaccio and Chaucer , Troilus , discoverin faithfulness of Cressida , in desperation goes fight the Greeks and receives an honorable b wound . Henryson has ...
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A. R. Orage album ancestors beauty BOOKS AT BEDTIME Catholic centuries Chair Chambered Nautilus Chaucer cigar cigarette reader classic Cressida CURTAINS Dante Dorothy Sayers downstairs drama dream ease Edipus enjoy exalted eyes faith Family Portraits fancy fireplace Flat-Topped Desk freedom FRIENDLY PIPES friends Greek happiness heart Heaven heroes Homer Horace human Il Filostrato imagination immortal intellectual junk King L. T. Hobhouse Lady learned less literary literature Living Upstairs lovers man's matter means mellow ment mental mind Molière Montaigne mood moral nature never night once ourselves philosophy pipe smoker play poem poet poetry Preface to Morals Roman Saint sense Shakespeare smoke Sophocles soul spirit story strigil talk taste things thought tion translation Troilus truth Upper Room vision W. S. Gilbert walls Walter Lippmann Window wisdom words WORLD DROPS writing wrote