She Stoops to Conquerby Oliver GoldsmithSHE STOOPS TO CONQUER;OR,THE MISTAKES OF A NIGHT.A COMEDY.To SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.Dear Sir,By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be found in a character, without impairing the most unaffected piety....
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...
Confessions of an English Opium-Eaterby Thomas De QuinceyBEING AN EXTRACT FROM THE LIFE OF A SCHOLAR. From the "London Magazine" for September 1821.TO THE READERI here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life: according to my application of it, I trust that it will prove not merely an interesting record, but in a considerable degree useful and instructive. In THAT hope it is that I have drawn it up; and THAT must be my apology for breaking through that
抽象的抒情这是一篇沈老未写完的遗作,初稿是在被查抄数年后退还的材料中发现的,发表时除校正了个别错字和标点外,余保持初稿原貌。根据沈老来往书信,本文可能在1961年7月至8月初写于青岛,也可能是8月回京后所作。照我思索,能理解“我”。照我思索,可认识“人”。生命在发展中,变化是常态,矛盾是常态,毁灭是常态。生命本身不能凝固,凝固即近于死亡或真正死亡。惟转化为文字,为形象,为音符,为节奏,可望将生命某一种形式,某一种状态,凝固下来,形成生命另外一种存在和延续,通过长长的时间,通过遥遥的空间,让另外一时另一地生存的人,彼此生命流注,无有阻隔。文学艺术的可贵在此。文学艺术的形成,本身也可说即充满了一种生命延长扩大的愿望。至少人类数千年来,这种挣扎方式已经成为一种习惯,得到认可。凡是人类对于生命青春的颂歌,向上的理想,追求生活完美的努力,以及一切文化出于劳动的认识、种种意识形态,...
正文 引子:决战.珠穆朗玛之颠珠穆朗玛峰是喜玛拉雅山主峰,世界最高的山峰,海拔8848.13米。位于炎黄共和国西藏与尼泊尔王国交界处的喜玛拉雅山脉中段。山体主要由结晶岩系构成。冰川规模大,约有冰川600多条,面积达1600平方公里。是低纬度地区现代冰川作用中心。冰舌的中上游普遍发育有高大的冰塔,为珠穆朗玛峰地区山谷冰川的特殊形态。珠穆朗玛峰的北、东和西南均有大型冰斗,使珠峰成为高出冰斗底部达3000米的金字塔形大角峰。在珠峰北坡,海拔7450米处为冰雪和岩石的交界线,其下冰雪皑皑,上部因崖壁陡峭,风力强劲,冰雪无法积存而岩石裸露。峰顶常为云雾笼罩,似以珠峰为旗杠而自西向东飘动的旗帜,这是珠峰特有的气象现象,人称旗云。...
尸与梦作者:苏镜见尸 这一夜,白月亮边缘好象生了灰色的绒毛,嵌在无星的夜幕中。 几个开蒙的学生早已经下了学,而塾师周璞对窗而坐,独自思念着青鸾寺里的那个人。 他是一个今年刚过二十岁的年轻人,因为两年前中了秀才,在这小县城里也算稍有身份。可是由于家中贫穷,又是孤身一人,因此除了请过隔壁的婆子为他烧饭,旁的人几乎不可能进他这间难以下足的屋子。 可是,青鸾寺的玉鸾是一个例外。她那么美,却曾经走进他这么破旧的屋子,倚在他怀里为他吹了一曲洞萧。她的眸子有一种清冷的光辉,熠熠如明星。她的道衣翩跹如鹤,身形又好似月下孤鸾。周璞每想到他们初识的那一刻,她从相思树下走过,手持一支拂尘,在日光中一笑,仿佛要被清柔的光芒融化。二十岁的少年,当时浑身有过电一般的战栗,有如风魔。...
Bel Amiby Henri Rene Guy De MaupassantTABLE OF CONTENTSCHAPTER I. POVERTYCHAPTER II. MADAME FORESTIERCHAPTER III. FIRST ATTEMPTSCHAPTER IV. DUROY LEARNS SOMETHINGCHAPTER V. THE FIRST INTRIGUECHAPTER VI. A STEP UPWARDCHAPTER VII. A DUEL WITH AN ENDCHAPTER VIII. DEATH AND A PROPOSALCHAPTER IX. MARRIAGECHAPTER X. JEALOUSYCHAPTER XI. MADAME WALTER TAKES A HANDCHAPTER XII. A MEETING AND THE RESULT...
The American Claimantby Mark TwainEXPLANATORYThe Colonel Mulberry Sellers here re-introduced to the public is the sameperson who appeared as Eschol Sellers in the first edition of the taleentitled "The Gilded Age," years ago, and as Beriah Sellers in thesubsequent editions of the same book, and finally as Mulberry Sellers inthe drama played afterward by John T. Raymond.The name was changed from Eschol to Beriah to accommodate an EscholSellers who rose up out of the vasty deeps of uncharted spac
THE WAYS OF MENTHE WAYS OF MENEliot Gregory1- Page 2-THE WAYS OF MENCHAPTER 1 - "UNCLE SAM"THE gentleman who graced the gubernatorial arm-chair of our statewhen this century was born happened to be an admirer of classic lore andthe sonorous names of antiquity.It is owing to his weakness in bestowing pompous cognomens on our...