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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... young man from across the Irish Sea trudged disconsolately up to- ward Ludgate Hill and Saint Paul's . Loneliness and melancholy enthralled his spirit . And then , beneath the ominous skies and in the midst of strangers , memory ...
... young man from across the Irish Sea trudged disconsolately up to- ward Ludgate Hill and Saint Paul's . Loneliness and melancholy enthralled his spirit . And then , beneath the ominous skies and in the midst of strangers , memory ...
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... young Boswell , Conversations with Eckermann . The Goethe here revealed is the Goethe of Mr. Thomas Mann's The Beloved Returns , but with more matter , less art and fewer words to the inch . Poet , lover , scien- tist , philosopher ...
... young Boswell , Conversations with Eckermann . The Goethe here revealed is the Goethe of Mr. Thomas Mann's The Beloved Returns , but with more matter , less art and fewer words to the inch . Poet , lover , scien- tist , philosopher ...
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... young man's poetry ' by comparison . " » 2 The oboe and the organ both make music , and of them are good . Becomingly catholic is our ta instruments - only we are wary of the troublingly tive saxophone . There is no incongruity in our ...
... young man's poetry ' by comparison . " » 2 The oboe and the organ both make music , and of them are good . Becomingly catholic is our ta instruments - only we are wary of the troublingly tive saxophone . There is no incongruity in our ...
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