Kenilworthby Walter ScottINTRODUCTIONA certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineationof Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt somethingsimilar respecting "her sister and her foe," the celebratedElizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached thetask with the same feelings; for the candid Robertson himselfconfesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman istempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a historian...
THE COMPARISON OF LYSANDER WITH SYLLAby Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenHAVING completed this Life also, come we now to the comparison. Thatwhich was common to them both was that they were founders of their owngreatness, with this difference, that Lysander had the consent ofhis fellow-citizens, in times of sober judgment, for the honours hereceived; nor did he force anything from them against their good-will,...
The French Revolution, Volume 3The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 4by Hippolyte A. TaineTHE FRENCH REVOLUTION VOLUME III.PREFACE.BOOK FIRST. The Establishment of the Revolutionary Government.CHAPTER I.BOOK SECOND. The Jacobin Program.CHAPTER I.CHAPTER II.BOOK THIRD. The Governors.CHAPTER I. Psychology of the Jacobin Leaders.CHAPTER II. The Rulers of the Country....
听说智者早已给过答复:人啊人,一半是天使,一半是魔鬼。我且拈花一笑,邪恶中自带着一股媚态风流。 拉开书桌抽屉,时常能翻到一封封飘着陈年墨香的书信,信上是几尽人间能事的溢美之词:“我爱你如同春天般甜美红润的樱唇,我爱你如盛夏般浓烈奔放的拥抱,我爱你如同初秋般含蓄多情的性格,我爱你寒冬般神秘高贵的气质。我爱你,因为你是我心中最完美无瑕的天使……”哦,天使,我曾经以为自己是。在二十岁之前那是最令我为之心旌摇荡的情话,不管说此话的人是谁或出于何种目的,我都一律照单全收且不加犹豫。但那时的我在赞美背后却活得痛苦无比,因为我总是不得不为了要成为一名别人眼中的天使而如履薄冰、战战兢兢,生怕让人看清那身后的一对羽毛是粘上去的赝品。...
我当时正在过非洲,任务是报道当地泛滥成灾的艾滋病疫情,贝克汉姆正是此时加盟皇家马德里的。奇怪的是,在艾滋病重灾区,同行人谈论的话题一直是贝克汉姆和皇家马德里。除了2003年最有全球影响力的伊拉克战争爆发这件极具争议的事件之外,似乎一切应该发生的事情都如期发生了。其实我并不应该大惊小怪,毕竟这是全球最有魅力的足球明星转会全球最有明星号召力的足球俱乐部。 马恩戈是内罗毕最大的贫民窟,这里艾滋病肆虐,城市就像一座迷宫一样让人辨不清方向。当我乘坐的小巴一路颠簸着驶过当地时,车上二十多个旅伴在言语之间所表现出的足球知识,让我颇感诧异,或者说让我惊奇地无法合上嘴。他们争论的主题并非贝克汉姆从曼联转投皇马,而是当天另外一件重要事件:为什么皇马主席会把球队主教练炒了鱿鱼。 “到底有没有人明白为什么佛罗伦蒂诺·佩雷斯赶走了德尔·博斯克?”坐在前排座位,与司机相邻的一个人问道,...
The Pathfinder, or, The Inland Seaby James Fenimore CooperPREFACEThe plan of this tale suggested itself to the writer manyyears since, though the details are altogether of recent in-vention. The idea of associating seamen and savages inincidents that might be supposed characteristic of theGreat Lakes having been mentioned to a Publisher, thelatter obtained something like a pledge from the Authorto carry out the design at some future day, which pledgeis now tardily and imperfectly redeemed....
Motherby Owen WisterTO MY FAVOURITE BROKER WITH THE EARNEST ASSURANCE THAT MR. BEVERLY IS NOTMEANT FOR HIMNOTEIN 1901, this story appeared anonymously as the ninth of a sequence ofshort stories by various authors, in a volume entitled A House Party. Ithas been slightly remodelled for separate publication.June 7, 1907, OWEN WISTERMOTHERWhen handsome young Richard Fieldhe was very handsome and very young...
《山海经》里曾说:当初盘古开天以后,终于死去后,头东脚西平躺在大地上他的头部高高隆起,就是现在的山东境内气势雄伟的东岳泰山;他的两脚趾朝天就是现在陕西省境内群峰挺立的西岳华山;他的肚子往上高挺,就是现在河南省境内风景秀丽的中岳嵩山;他的左臂在身体的南边,就是现在湖南省境内重峦叠嶂的南岳衡山;他的右臂在身体的北边,就是山西省境内气象万千的北岳恒山。 他的寓意也就是这五座山是一个整体,是一个人身上的部分,是不可分割的。这五座山所在的省份和一马平川的河北及陕西几乎是最能代表中国的省份,这六个省几乎是中华民族五千年文明的缩影。虽然中国的地域特色很重,光是叫东西南北的省份就有十几个(东有山东、广东;西有陕西、山西、广西、江西、西藏;南有湖南、河南、云南、海南;北有河北、湖北。),这其中东西南北所对应的四省也分别是汉民族传统势力范围最早的边界,也是春秋战国时...
The Argonauticaby Apollonius RhodiusINTRODUCTIONMuch has been written about the chronology of Alexandrian literature and the famous Library, founded by Ptolemy Soter, but the dates of the chief writers are still matters of conjecture. The birth of Apollonius Rhodius is placed by scholars at various times between 296 and 260 B.C., while the year of his death is equally uncertain. In fact, we have very little information on the subject. There are two "lives" of Apollonius in the Scholia, both d
American Literary Centersby William Dean HowellsOne of the facts which we Americans have a difficulty in making clear toa rather inattentive world outside is that, while we have apparently aliterature of our own, we have no literary centre. We have so muchliterature that from time to time it seems even to us we must have aliterary centre. We say to ourselves, with a good deal of logic, Wherethere is so much smoke there must be some fire, or at least a fireplace....