Mr. Gladstone and Genesisby Thomas Henry HuxleyIn controversy, as in courtship, the good old rule to be offwith the old before one is on with the new, greatly commendsitself to my sense of expediency. And, therefore, it appears tome desirable that I should preface such observations as I mayhave to offer upon the cloud of arguments (the relevancy ofwhich to the issue which I had ventured to raise is not alwaysobvious) put forth by Mr. Gladstone in the January number of...
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCONTENTS.VOICES OF THE NIGHT.PreludeHymn to the NightA Psalm of LifeThe Reaper and the FlowersThe Light of StarsFootsteps of AngelsFlowersThe Beleaguered CityMidnight Mass for the Dying YearEARLIER POEMS.An April DayAutumnWoods in WinterHymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem...
Fraternityby John GalsworthyCHAPTER ITHE SHADOWIn the afternoon of the last day of April, 190-, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington. This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped somewhat like a star, which still gleameda single gentian flower amongst innumerable grass. Each of these small clouds seemed fitted with a pair of unseen wings, and, as insects flight on their to
The Little Manby John GalsworthyCHARACTERSTHE LITTLE MAN.THE AMERICAN.THE ENGLISHMAN.THE ENGLISHWOMAN.THE GERMAN.THE DUTCH BOY.THE MOTHER.THE BABY.THE WAITER.THE STATION OFFICIAL.THE POLICEMAN.THE PORTER.SCENE IAfternoon, on the departure platform of an Austrian railwaystation. At several little tables outside the buffet personsare taking refreshment, served by a pale young waiter. On a...
Third BookThe SystemsChapter 28The National Economists of ItalyItaly has been the forerunner of all modern nations, in thetheory as well as in the practice of Political Economy. CountPechio has given us a laboriously written sketch of that branch ofItalian literature; only his book is open to the observation, thathe has clung too slavishly to the popular theory, and has not duly...
[ 我要留言 ] [ 返回书页 ] [ 返回目录 ] [ 繁体转换 ] [ 添加书签 ]新探案显贵的主顾福尔摩斯探案——新探案 "现在不碍事了,"这就是歇洛克·福尔摩斯先生的回答。 十年以来,当我第十次要求披露以下这段故事时,他这样地答复了我。于是我终于得到许可,把我的朋友一生中这段紧要的经历公诸于世。 福尔摩斯和我都有土耳其浴的癖好。在蒸气弥漫的更衣室里那舒坦懒散的气氛中,我总觉得他比在别的地方更近人情、更爱聊天一些。在北安普敦街浴室的楼上,有一个十分清静的角落,并排放着两只躺椅,而我的记事就从我们躺在这个地方开始,那是一九○二年九月三日。我问他可有什么令人感兴趣的案子没有。作为回答,他突然从裹着身子的被单里伸出他那瘦长而灵敏的胳臂,从挂在身旁的上衣内袋里掏出一个信封来。...
THE BLACK ARROW - A TALE OF THE TWO ROSESPROLOGUE - JOHN AMEND-ALLOn a certain afternoon, in the late springtime, the bell uponTunstall Moat House was heard ringing at an unaccustomed hour. Farand near, in the forest and in the fields along the river, peoplebegan to desert their labours and hurry towards the sound; and inTunstall hamlet a group of poor country-folk stood wondering at thesummons.Tunstall hamlet at that period, in the reign of old King Henry VI.,...
第一次约会遭拒绝 贝克汉姆最早的恋爱是在学校的时候,那时候的他还是一个十几岁的小男孩,但是他的性格比较内向,一般不太愿意和同学们说话,在他的心理惟一的重要的东西就是足球,所以对于当时同学们当中有人谈恋爱他甚至不屑一顾,他认为现在的自己就是要有一份属于自己的事业,让自己感兴趣的事情做起来要比谈恋爱有趣得多。但是小贝最终还是有了自己喜欢的人。 曾经和贝克汉姆参加同一个少年队又在一个学校念书的费尔德回忆说,“那时候的贝克汉姆在足球上展示了非凡的天分,他的颠球技巧是一绝,几乎所有的男同学都喜欢看他颠球,也想从他那里学到点什么,可是大卫那时比较内向,他不愿意和别人一起玩足球,只是喜欢自己玩,因此很多同学认为他比较骄傲,其实现在才知道那是因为他性格的原因。那时因为大卫长相英俊甜美,总是面带笑容,这就很容易吸引所有的女生。可是因为他连男孩子都不愿一起玩,更何况是女生了...
作者:张平 作家张平访谈录 记者:在你的一次谈话中说道:来到大山的腹地,在那里感受到的并不是当代工业文明的气息,而是中国原始生态中的最糟粕形态。中国中西部山野里百姓的生存困境和当地的恶势力,形成了怎样一种“相反相成”的链接关系? 张平:我在前面说过了,经过二十多年的改革开放,我们的社会已经有了很大的进步和变化。但这并不是说,我们原来所具有的问题都已经不存在了,都彻底予以解决了。我们是一个具有几千年封建历史的文明古国,所以我们的国情对现代文明工业文明本身就具有一种天然的对抗和阻击。这不是一蹴而就的事情,更不是伴随着经济的发展它自然而然的就消失了不存在了。尤其是相对城市来说,一些偏远乡村的发展明显滞后,那里村民的生活文化水平,同十几年前相比,基本上没有什么太大的变化。由于贫富差距的拉大,反而使得一些旧的恶的东西死灰复燃。比如目无法纪,鱼肉乡里,拉帮结伙,占...
Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackerayBEFORE THE CURTAINAs the manager of the Performance sits before the curtainon the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profoundmelancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place.There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making loveand jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating,fighting, dancing and fiddling; there are bullies pushing about,bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen...