Styleby Walter RaleighStyle, the Latin name for an iron pen, has come to designate the art that handles, with ever fresh vitality and wary alacrity, the fluid elements of speech. By a figure, obvious enough, which yet might serve for an epitome of literary method, the most rigid and simplest of instruments has lent its name to the subtlest and most flexible of arts. Thence the application of the word has been extended to arts other than literature, to the whole range of the activities of man.
A CONVERT OF THE MISSIONThe largest tent of the Tasajara camp meeting was crowded to itsutmost extent. The excitement of that dense mass was at itshighest pitch. The Reverend Stephen Masterton, the single erect,passionate figure of that confused medley of kneeling worshipers,had reached the culminating pitch of his irresistible exhortatorypower. Sighs and groans were beginning to respond to his appeals,when the reverend brother was seen to lurch heavily forward and...
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, V10BY CONSTANTPREMIER VALET DE CHAMBRETRANSLATED BY WALTER CLARK1895CONTENTS:CHAPTER VIII. to CHAPTER XIV.CHAPTER VIII.During the whole Russian campaign, the Emperor was nearly always badlylodged. It was necessary, however, to accommodate himself tocircumstances; though this was a somewhat difficult task to those whowere accustomed to lodge in palaces. The Emperor accepted the situation...
SHERLOCK HOLMESTHE ADVENTURE OF THE RETIRED COLOURMANby Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSherlock Holmes was in a melancholy and philosophic mood thatmorning. His alert practical nature was subject to such reactions."Did you see him?" he asked."You mean the old fellow who has just gone out?""Precisely.""Yes, I met him at the door.""What did you think of him?""A pathetic, futile, broken creature."...
成都的历史上,有三个女人很出名:西汉的卓文君,中唐的薛涛,五代十国时代后蜀的花蕊夫人。卓文君与司马相如的爱情故事妇孺皆知,她的名字被司马迁写入了《史记》。花蕊夫人姓徐,青城(今都江堰市)人氏,生得很漂亮,又能歌善舞,填词作曲,她入选蜀宫,深得蜀主孟昶的宠爱。二人之间的情事不仅在蜀中流传,也传到了中原去。成都有个摩诃池,是皇家夏日纳凉的好去处,古木参差,楼台错落,碧水逶迤。孟昶携宠妃纳凉于摩诃池上的水殿,月色中美酒清歌,风流百端。苏轼七岁时,听眉山九十岁的老尼姑讲她亲眼所见的花蕊夫人,脑子里充满了想象,后有名词《洞仙歌》:“冰肌玉骨,自清凉无汗,水殿风来暗香满。一点明月窥人,人未寝,倚枕衩横鬓乱。起来携素手,庭户无声,时见疏星度河汉……”...
The Woman-Hatersby Joseph C. LincolnFOREWORD(By Way of Explanation)A story of mine called, like this, "The Woman-Haters," appearedrecently in one of the magazines. That story was not this one,except in partthe part dealing with "John Brown" and Miss RuthGraham. Readers of the former tale who perhaps imagine they knowall about Seth Atkins and Mrs. Emeline Bascom will be surprised tofind they really know so little. The truth is that, when I began torevise and rearrange the magazine story for p
(十五)娱乐礼仪-金正昆 主讲人简介: 金正昆教授,1959年出生,浙江东阳人。知名礼仪与公共关系专家,博士生导师,现任中国人民大学国际关系学院外交学系主任,礼仪与公共研究中心主任。主要从事外交学、传播学、礼仪学与公共关系学研究。主要著作有《外交学》、《现代外交学概论》等。 内容简介: 国庆佳节的到来,使人们更加感受到和谐之美,生活水平的提高,使跳舞看戏,出门旅游,成为人们过节度假的主要内容。然而,如何玩得开心,玩得愉快,这也需要讲究技巧,如果没有了礼数,尴尬和困惑随之而来:参加舞会,看着心仪的对象,不知该如何去得体的邀请?遭遇纠缠,又不知道该怎样礼貌的回绝?观看演出,需要注意的问题是什么?出门旅游,与人相处又有哪些技巧?节日伊始,中国人民大学金正昆教授在轻歌曼舞中为您解析娱乐中的礼仪,给您在出门之前提个醒,从而使您玩出好心情。...
哥们儿,潇洒已婚男,世袭张姓,祖籍天津。出身乡野人,读的烂大学。虽逢盛世,命运乖张——教过书,打过工,经过商,坐过牢,历尽劫波江湖已远,现蜗居闹市一隅,半商半读,随心任性。经常想戒烟,偶尔买彩票,又喜聚嘨上九流、下三烂,诗书酒肉不拘一格,不论几度夕阳红,只说人生快意事。《黑马甲》 题记序言王向东脸色通红,脖子上青筋暴跳,直看着脚下的西装说:“妈的,让人玩儿啦!”转身就冲了出去。到了瞎四的店里,第一句话就是:“姐姐你的西装咋样?全毛那批!”瞎四正盯着伙计清点服装,抬头笑道:“还没过完数呢。”王向东伸脖子一看,她的全毛西装一点问题没有,更急了:“姐姐,我叫南蛮子给耍啦!”“咋了,弟弟?”“福建人那批西装全给掉了包,没一件跟样品一样的!”...
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