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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... translation Quintus Horatius Flaccus is a grand man to know . Even in translation we can catch his flashings of humor and fancy , we can share his genial wisdom , his considerable learning , his profound respect for the writing art ; we ...
... translation Quintus Horatius Flaccus is a grand man to know . Even in translation we can catch his flashings of humor and fancy , we can share his genial wisdom , his considerable learning , his profound respect for the writing art ; we ...
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... translations of Horace are like canned peas or canned music . The generous Falernian wine re- tains all of its body , much of its potency ; it loses its delicate bouquet . Yet , even in translation , Horace lives on . The most starkly ...
... translations of Horace are like canned peas or canned music . The generous Falernian wine re- tains all of its body , much of its potency ; it loses its delicate bouquet . Yet , even in translation , Horace lives on . The most starkly ...
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... translation and Catholics in a translation of a transla- tion . Like all true literature , the wisdom books cut through the surface of life and concentrate on the un- changing depths . Many of their verses printed in this morning's ...
... translation and Catholics in a translation of a transla- tion . Like all true literature , the wisdom books cut through the surface of life and concentrate on the un- changing depths . Many of their verses printed in this morning's ...
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accept ancestors beauty bedtime better centuries Chair Chambered Nautilus classic comes course Cressida death downstairs ease enjoy experience eyes face faith feel fire fireplace Flat-Topped Desk freedom friends give Greek hand happy heart Heaven hold hour human ideas imagination impression intellectual interest Italy junk keep King knowledge language learned least less light literary literature Living Upstairs look man's matter means ment mental mind moral nature never night once ourselves personality philosophy pipe play poem poet portraits practical present reader reason Roman Saint sense Shakespeare social soul speak spirit story sure talk taste tell things thinking thought tion translation true truth turn universal Upper Room vision walls Window wisdom women writing wrote young