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.
慢慢的,陆续的贴一些杂志选用的短篇给大家看。 风格也许有些不一样,网络是自由的,杂志是要符合主题的。圣诞温馨短篇《搬家》 我一直很害怕搬家,因为习惯了的东西就要在短短几天里被摧毁,每次搬家,都要收拾那些杂物,慢慢回忆那些回忆的残渣。 我叫李红,普通的不能再普通的一个二十五岁女孩,因为工作经常变动的原因,搬家无数,但这次却不同,今天是圣诞节。 搬家的原因是我没有钱交房租了,男朋友刘灿在知道我怀孕的消息后说感谢你提前给我的圣诞礼物。 可是我很疼,手术结束时那个孩子看起来虽然血肉模糊,但是我仍然可以想象他长大以后也许是个科学家或者是个明星什么的,在领奖台上含着热泪感谢我之类的情景。可惜它已经变成若干个粘稠的艳红色的血球。...
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENTHE BOTTLE NECKby Hans Christian AndersenCLOSE to the corner of a street, among other abodes of poverty,stood an exceedingly tall, narrow house, which had been so knockedabout by time that it seemed out of joint in every direction. Thishouse was inhabited by poor people, but the deepest poverty wasapparent in the garret lodging in the gable. In front of the little...
Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other VersesBy A. B. PatersonNoteMajor A. B. Paterson has been on active service in Egyptfor the past eighteen months. The publishers feel it incumbent on them to saythat only a few of the pieces in this volume have been seen by him in proof;and that he is not responsible for the selection, the arrangement or the titleof "Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses".Table of Contents...
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...
The Hunchbackby James Sheridan KnowlesINTRODUCTIONJames Sheridan Knowles was born at Cork in 1784, and died at Torquayin December, 1862, at the age of 78. His father was a teacher ofelocution, who compiled a dictionary, and who was related to theSheridans. He moved to London when his son was eight years old, andthere became acquainted with William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb. Theson, after his school education, obtained a commission in the army,but gave up everything for the stage, and made his
Back Homeby Eugene WoodTOTHE SAINTED MEMORYOF HER WHOM, IN THE DAYS BACK HOME,I KNEW AS "MY MA MAG"AND WHO WAS MORE TO ME THAN I CAN TELL, EVENIF MY TARDY WORDS COULD REACH HERTHIS BOOK IS DEDICATED"That she who is an angel nowMight sometimes think of me"CONTENTSINTRODUCTIONTHE OLD RED SCHOOL-HOUSETHE SABBATH-SCHOOLTHE REVOLVING YEARTHE SWIMMING-HOLE...
PRIOR ANALYTICSby Aristotletranslated by A. J. JenkinsonBook I1WE must first state the subject of our inquiry and the faculty towhich it belongs: its subject is demonstration and the faculty thatcarries it out demonstrative science. We must next define a premiss, aterm, and a syllogism, and the nature of a perfect and of an imperfect...
大杨庄是个大庄,杨姓是个大姓。自从老爷爷来到此地场扎根,如今已有五十四代传人。不论男女老少,大家全都亲切地称这位开宗先祖为老爷爷。湖里的干沟是老爷爷开的;西头的枯井是老爷爷打的;老爷爷种的大槐树空了心,里头可以躲四个藏猫猫的小孩儿。族谱的头一页上就记载着老爷爷的事迹。族谱是从第七代传人手里修的,那一年里出了一个人材。族谱代代相传,最后传到了老队长手里,老队长是第四十九代里最后一名传人了,两年前老队长退位给他的儿子杨绪国。可是大家依然叫他老队长。杨绪国,则被叫作小队长。 知识青年上山下乡的时候,大杨庄来了三名学生,全是女的。一个是上海来的,姓王,另两个是从县城街上来的,姓杨和姓李。姓王的学生是新调来的县长的熟人,来了之后就要揭阶级斗争的盖子,消灭封建宗法。串连几家外来小户暗暗地闹了一阵。后来被上面挑中做了知识青年积极分子代表,上省里开了会回来正遇上招工,就让县...
The Man From Glengarryby Ralph ConnorA TALE OF THE OTTAWADEDICATIONTO THE MEN OF GLENGARRY WHO IN PATIENCE, IN COURAGE AND IN THE FEAROF GOD ARE HELPING TO BUILD THE EMPIRE OF THE CANADIAN WEST THISBOOK IS HUMBLY DEDICATEDPREFACEThe solid forests of Glengarry have vanished, and with the foreststhe men who conquered them. The manner of life and the type ofcharacter to be seen in those early days have gone too, andforever. It is part of the purpose of this book to so picture...