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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... present . Upstairs we make the ac- quaintance of men and women worth knowing - Saint Paul and Talleyrand , Jeanne d'Arc and Catherine of Russia , Frederick of Prussia and Damien of Molokai . Upstairs we abide in the current of ideas ...
... present . Upstairs we make the ac- quaintance of men and women worth knowing - Saint Paul and Talleyrand , Jeanne d'Arc and Catherine of Russia , Frederick of Prussia and Damien of Molokai . Upstairs we abide in the current of ideas ...
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... present - day scoffers might not to existence at all . Yet the scoffers are rig was not pretty and it was not art . Turning and bevel - edged pages was generally suff suade any embryo Hamlet that this brave a foul and pestilent ...
... present - day scoffers might not to existence at all . Yet the scoffers are rig was not pretty and it was not art . Turning and bevel - edged pages was generally suff suade any embryo Hamlet that this brave a foul and pestilent ...
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... present and pressing problem of education , and there is an implied classification and analysis of enduring human types in " The Cat That Walked by Himself . " The pipe man is rather that sort of cat . Most readers will derive something ...
... present and pressing problem of education , and there is an implied classification and analysis of enduring human types in " The Cat That Walked by Himself . " The pipe man is rather that sort of cat . Most readers will derive something ...
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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