A Treatise on Parents and Childrenby George Bernard ShawCONTENTSParents and ChildrenTrailing Clouds of GloryThe Child is Father to the ManWhat is a Child?The Sin of Nadab and AbihuThe Manufacture of MonstersSmall and Large FamiliesChildren as NuisancesChild FanciersChildhood as a State of SinSchoolMy Scholastic AcquirementsSchoolmasters of GeniusWhat We Do Not Teach, and WhyTaboo in SchoolsAlleged Novelties in Modern Schools...
The Lifted Veilby George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans]CHAPTER IThe time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject toattacks of angina pectoris; and in the ordinary course of things,my physician tells me, I may fairly hope that my life will not beprotracted many months. Unless, then, I am cursed with anexceptional physical constitution, as I am cursed with anexceptional mental character, I shall not much longer groan underthe wearisome burthen of this earthly existence. If it were to be...
An Inland Voyageby Robert Louis StevensonPREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITIONTo equip so small a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of his labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So with the writer in his preface: he may have never a word to say, but he must show himself for a moment in the portico, hat
第一天12月3日星期五“红十月”号核潜艇苏联海军一级舰长马科.拉米乌斯让特制的北极防寒服,呢绒服和油布衫在身上厚厚地裹了五层。这是在波利亚尔内的北海舰队潜艇基地里的标准服装。一艘肮脏的海港拖轮推着艇首,掉头向北,对着出海的航道。他的“红十月”号潜艇在船坞里熬过了漫长的两个月;船坞现在已成了一个灌满海水的水泥盒子。这种船坞是专门为战略寻弹潜艇修建的,能抵御当地严酷的大自然的侵袭。许多海军水兵和船工挤在船坞边上,默默地看着她启航,既没有挥手,也没有欢呼。这是俄国方式的:无动于衷。“轮机,缓速前进,卡马罗夫,”他命令道。拖轮离升了航道。拉米乌斯向艇尾看去,两个螺旋桨搅起了滚滚浪花。拖轮的船长向他挥动着手臂,拉米乌斯也向他挥挥手。拖轮干了一项很简单的工作,但是干得干净利落。“台风”级潜艇“红十月”号在自己的动力推动下向科里湾主航道驶去。...
The Club of Queer Tradesby G.K.ChestertonChapter 1The Tremendous Adventures of Major BrownRabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called flats in England and America. There is something entirely Gargantuan in the idea of economising space by piling houses on top of each other, front doors and all. And in the chaos and complexity of those perpendicular streets anything may dwell or happen, and it is in one of them, I believe,
The Unknown Guestby Maurice MaeterlinckTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosINTRODUCTION1My Essay on Death[1] led me to make a conscientious enquiry into the present position of the great mystery, an enquiry which I have endeavoured to render as complete as possible. I had hoped that a single volume would be able to contain the result of these investigations, which, I may say at once, will teach nothing to those who have been over the same ground and which have nothing to recommend them ex
Grass of Parnassusby Andrew LangContents:Grass of ParnassusDeeds of men:Seekers for a cityThe white pachaMidnight, January 25, 1886Advance, AustraliaColonel BurnabyMelville and CoghillRhodocleia:To rhodocleia - on her melancholy singingAve:Clevedon churchTwilight on Tweed *Metempsychosis *Lost in Hades *A star in the night *A sunset on yarrow *Another way...
叙 由来词客,雅爱传奇;不是痴人,偏工说梦。卖不去一肚皮诗云子曰,何妨别显神通;听将来满耳朵俚谚村谣,只和合同鬼诨。何况悠悠碧落,蚁自聚于槐柯;浩浩黄舆,鹿且埋于蕉下。 将廿一史掀翻,细数芝麻账目;直把十三经搁起,寻思橄榄甜头。颠倒着即色即空之公案,描摩就忽啼忽笑之情形。 且也,证明因果,石自能言;打破横关,草堪蠲怨。去年人面,休烦崔护题诗;再世婚姻,仍遣韦皋作婿。飞枕边之蝴蝶,创开百代勋猷;携篮内之樱桃,幻作一场富贵。胡天胡帝,要须在无何有之乡;如云如荼,不过比将毋同之例。贾原是假,甄亦非真。曾参何处杀人,问去不声冤屈;郑綮今朝作相,算来好象应该。彻犀角之七层,弯弓妙手;贯明珠之九曲,穿缕精心。悲欢离合,通呼吸于鼻孔之间;将相王侯,看安排于手掌之上。纵使爱眠宰我,会心处不觉伸腰;便令不笑包公,得意时也劳捧腹。...
The Black Tulipby Alexandre Dumas, PereChapter 1A Grateful PeopleOn the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, alwaysso lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe everyday to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees,spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like largemirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Easterncupolas are reflected, the city of the Hague, the capitalof the Seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its...
Massimilla Doniby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Clara Bell and James WaringDEDICATIONTo Jacques Strunz.MY DEAR STRUNZ:I should be ungrateful if I did not set your nameat the head of one of the two tales I could never have written butfor your patient kindness and care. Accept this as my gratefulacknowledgment of the readiness with which you triedperhaps notvery successfullyto initiate me into the mysteries of musicalknowledge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what...
The Golden Asseby Lucius ApuleiusTranslated by William AdlingtonDedicationTo the Right Honourable and Mighty Lord, THOMAS EARLE OF SUSSEX, Viscount Fitzwalter, Lord of Egremont and of Burnell, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, Iustice of the forrests and Chases from Trent Southward; Captain of the Gentleman Pensioners of the House of the QUEENE our Soveraigne Lady.After that I had taken upon me (right Honourable) in manner of that unlearned and foolish Poet, Cherillus, who rashly