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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... talk is its casualness , its informality , its sponta- neity , its approximation to the ideal of talk for talk's sake . The Flat - Topped Desk is a deck cleared for action . It is the place where we work at books , not merely play with ...
... talk is its casualness , its informality , its sponta- neity , its approximation to the ideal of talk for talk's sake . The Flat - Topped Desk is a deck cleared for action . It is the place where we work at books , not merely play with ...
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... talk things over , " they never get anywhere nor settle anything , least of all anything that reaches to the roots of life . They diffuse our attention , exhaust our energy , irritate our temper , attenuate our soul . But - and with ...
... talk things over , " they never get anywhere nor settle anything , least of all anything that reaches to the roots of life . They diffuse our attention , exhaust our energy , irritate our temper , attenuate our soul . But - and with ...
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... talk things over , " they never get anywhere nor settle anything , least of all anything that reaches to the roots of life . They diffuse our attention , exhaust our energy , irritate our temper , attenuate our soul . But - and with ...
... talk things over , " they never get anywhere nor settle anything , least of all anything that reaches to the roots of life . They diffuse our attention , exhaust our energy , irritate our temper , attenuate our soul . But - and with ...
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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