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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... voice discourse most eloquent music ; also , alas , it uncovers lack of knowledge , narrowness of outlook , poverty of emotional life . By practice we train our logical faculty and our manual skill ; the voice we too often ignore and ...
... voice discourse most eloquent music ; also , alas , it uncovers lack of knowledge , narrowness of outlook , poverty of emotional life . By practice we train our logical faculty and our manual skill ; the voice we too often ignore and ...
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... voice Of mountain - torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery ... voices of the birds of wisdom . There we stand beyond the pale of controversy , the cockpit of contentious argument ...
... voice Of mountain - torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery ... voices of the birds of wisdom . There we stand beyond the pale of controversy , the cockpit of contentious argument ...
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... voice of experience and harden not our hearts . At no other time are we likely to develop so genuine an understanding of books , so saving a familiarity with writers . What books and what writers are most suitable at bedtime ? You might ...
... voice of experience and harden not our hearts . At no other time are we likely to develop so genuine an understanding of books , so saving a familiarity with writers . What books and what writers are most suitable at bedtime ? You might ...
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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