Mark Twain, A Biography, 1900-1907By Albert Bigelow PaineVOLUME III, Part 1: 1900-1907CCXIITHE RETURN OF THE CONQUERORIt would be hard to exaggerate the stir which the newspapers and thepublic generally made over the homecoming of Mark Twain. He had leftAmerica, staggering under heavy obligation and set out on a pilgrimage ofredemption. At the moment when this Mecca, was in view a great sorrowhad befallen him and, stirred a world-wide and soul-deep tide of human...
BluebeardA Musical Fantasyby Kate Douglas WigginDedication: To my friend Walter DamroschMaster of the art form so irreverently treated in these pages.Kate Douglas WigginPREFACEMore than a dozen years ago musical scholars and critics began toilluminate the musical darkness of New York with lecture-recitalsexplanatory of the more abstruse German operas. Previous to this era no onehad ever thought, for instance, of unfolding the story, or the "_Leit_...
TRUSTY JOHNONCE upon a time there was an old king who was soill that he thought to himself, "I am most likely on mydeath-bed." Then he said, "Send Trusty John to me."Now Trusty John was his favorite servant, and was socalled because all his life he had served him so faithfully.When he approached the bed the King spake to him:"Most trusty John, I feel my end is drawing near, and Icould face it without a care were it not for my son. Heis still too young to decide everything for himself, and...
正文第一章注册 “起床拉~~~~~~~”一声尖利里的女高音响彻我家上空,回荡声不绝于耳。 “嗯……我再睡会儿。”我睡意正浓,连眼皮都没睁开,拉了拉被子,翻了个身,继续我的美梦。 “你小子给我起来!”一只细皮嫩肉的小脚出现在我的臀部附近。 当的一声,一团人形的被子飞出一米开外,撞在墙壁上,然后落下。我从被子中滚了出来,揉了揉眼睛,才看清楚眼前的这位怒目圆睁的美女。 “啊~阿月,早上好!”我伸了个懒腰。 本人林风华,今年十八岁,现在正好升高三。这位美女叫林雪月,本人的双胞胎姐姐,来自母亲的遗传,标准的母老虎。(为我未来的姐夫祈祷,愿主保佑你,阿门!)这年代好像漂亮的女人都比较凶猛,就像我们家的这对母女。老爸,林胜龙,拥有一个跨国集团公司,属于典型的社会成功人士,除了家有悍妻这点之外其它好像还是很成功的。不过看的出他们夫妻还是很恩爱的。对外,在公司里母亲还...
Flower of the MindandLater Poemsby Alice MeynellINTRODUCTIONPartial collections of English poems, decided by a common subjector bounded by narrow dates and periods of literary history, aremade at very short intervals, and the makers are safe from thereproach of proposing their own personal taste as a guide for thereading of others. But a general Anthology gathered from the wholeof English literaturethe whole from Chaucer to Wordsworthby agatherer intent upon nothing except the quality of poetr
PROPHETS AND KINGSby ELLEN G.WHITEProphets and Kings(9)FOREWORDTHE STORY Of PROPHETS AND KINGS IS THE SECOND IN A SERIES OF FIVE OUTSTANDING VOLUMES SPANNING SACRED HISTORY. IT WAS, HOWEVER, THE LAST BOOK OF THE SERIES TO BE WRITTEN, AND THE LAST OF MANY RICH WORKS TO COME FROM THE GIFTED PEN OF ELLEN G. WHITE. THROUGH HER SEVENTY YEARS OF SPEAKING AND WRITING IN AMERICA AND ABROAD, MRS. WHITE EVER KEPT BEFORE THE PUBLIC THE LARGER SIGNIFICANCE OF THE EVENTS OF HISTORY, REVEALING THAT IN THE AF
温湄糊里糊涂搞定考试出来,脑子里还残存着些稀奇古怪的日耳曼语法。选修课老师真是异想天开,还指望他们在暑假里放着大好年华不去挥霍,对着书本念什么“阿杯侧N”。上完这个学期以后再也不去学第二外语了,如果不是为了坚守“有始有终”的人生信条,这个学期她死也不会再去选德语。上个学期的痛苦经历惟一教会她的,就是相比之下英语是一种多么简明多么可爱的语言,真后悔以前没有好好对待它。热热的晚风吹来,没带丝毫凉意。南方的夏天来得早,走得晚,更不用说是今年这样五十年一遇的高温天气。再加上这个去年刚开始使用的、马路宽度媲美本市最繁华商业街的新校区,路旁的树木一律只有小孩手臂一般“粗壮”,离成荫还有个几十年时间,根本没有办法遮天蔽日。于是每天中午都可以看见行色匆匆的校友们像逃难一样,在烈日下以不影响形象的最快速度飞奔,只求少晒得一分钟是一分钟。...
The Chaperonby Henry JamesCHAPTER I.An old lady, in a high drawing-room, had had her chair moved close tothe fire, where she sat knitting and warming her knees. She wasdressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered,however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips inobedience to something that was passing in her mind. She was farfrom the lamp, but though her eyes were fixed upon her active needlesshe was not looking at them. What she really saw was quite
Dream Daysby Kenneth GrahameContentsTHE TWENTY-FIRST OF OCTOBERDIES IRAEMUTABILE SEMPERTHE MAGIC RINGITS WALLS WERE AS OF JASPERA SAGA OF THE SEASTHE RELUCTANT DRAGONA DEPARTUREDream DaysTHE TWENTY-FIRST OFOCTOBERIn the matter of general culture and attainments, we youngstersstood on pretty level ground. True, it was always happening that...
The Life of Thomas Telford by Smilesby Samuel Smiles"Let us travel, and wherever we find no facility fortravelling from a city to a town, from a village to ahamlet, we may pronounce the people to be barbarous"Abbe Raynal"The opening up of the internal communications of acountry is undoubtedly the first and most importantelement of its growth in commerce and civilization"Richard CobdenCONTENTS...
[译自《关于在绘画和雕刻艺术里模仿希腊作品的一些意见》]希腊艺术杰作的一般特征是一种高贵的单纯和一种静穆的伟大,既在姿态上,也在表情里。就像海的深处永远停留在静寂里,不管它的表面多么狂涛汹涌,在希腊人的造像里那表情展示一个伟大的沉静的灵魂,尽管是处在一切激情里面。在极端强烈的痛苦里,这种心灵描绘在拉奥孔拉奥孔,古代特洛伊城阿波罗神庙祭师,因警告国人勿受希腊联军木马计的欺骗,被袒护敌方的神灵遣派二巨蟒将父子三人扼死。著名雕像群是公元前50年左右的创作。的脸上,并且不单是在脸上。在一切肌肉和筋络所展现的痛苦,不用向脸上和其他部分去看,仅仅看到那因痛苦而向内里收缩着的下半身,我们几乎会在自己身上感觉着。然而这痛苦,我说,并不曾在脸上和姿态上用愤激表示出来。他没有像维吉尔在他的《拉奥孔》(诗)里维吉尔,公元前1世纪罗马著名诗人,史诗《爱耐伊斯》(Aneis)中曾写拉阿孔。所歌咏...
The Perils of Certain English Prisonersby Charles DickensCHAPTER ITHE ISLAND OF SILVER-STOREIt was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty-four, that I, Gill Davis to command, His Mark, having then thehonour to be a private in the Royal Marines, stood a-leaning overthe bulwarks of the armed sloop Christopher Columbus, in the SouthAmerican waters off the Mosquito shore.My lady remarks to me, before I go any further, that there is no...