Under Western Eyesby Joseph Conrad"I would take liberty from any handas a hungry man would snatch a piece of bread."Miss HALDINPART FIRSTTo begin with I wish to disclaim the possession of those highgifts of imagination and expression which would have enabled mypen to create for the reader the personality of the man whocalled himself, after the Russian custom, Cyril son ofIsidorKirylo Sidorovitch-Razumov,...
THE SKETCH BOOKWESTMINSTER ABBEYby Washington IrvingWhen I behold, with deep astonishment,To famous Westminster how there resorteLiving in brasse or stoney monument,The princes and the worthies of all sorte;Doe not I see reformde nobilitie,Without contempt, or pride, or ostentation,And looke upon offenselesse majesty,...
The Country Doctorby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell"For a wounded heartshadow and silence."To my Mother.CHAPTER ITHE COUNTRYSIDE AND THE MANOn a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a valley of some considerable length. The melting of the
TWICE-TOLD TALESOLD ESTHER DUDLEYby Nathaniel HawthorneTHE HOUR HAD COME- the hour of defeat and humiliation- when SirWilliam Howe was to pass over the threshold of the Province House, andembark, with no such triumphal ceremonies as he once promised himself,on board the British fleet. He bade his servants and militaryattendants go before him, and lingered a moment in the loneliness of...
The Nature of Rentby T.R. Malthus1815An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent, and thePrinciples by which it is regulated.by Rev. T.R. Malthus,Professor of History and Political Economy In the East IndiaCollege, HertfordshireLondon, Printed for John Murray, Albemarle Street1815.AdvertisementThe following tract contains the substance of some notes onrent, which, with others on different subjects relating to...
初春三月的新泽西州乡间,乍暖还寒。尽管有母亲安妮和保姆蓓蒂的悉心照料,一岁零八个月的小查尔斯·林勃还是感冒了。小查尔斯是查尔斯和安妮·林勃夫妇的长子,昵称查理。这天天刚擦黑,两个女人给查理喂过药便哄他早早地睡了。她们在查理的法兰绒内衣外面又套了一件连衣裤,再盖上厚厚的绒毯。为防止孩子夜里蹬开被子,她们用别针把绒毯别在床垫上。外面下着大雨,蓓蒂关好了两扇窗户,可不知什么时候墙角那扇窗户的窗闩坏了,安妮过来帮着蓓蒂一起关也没关上,只好随它去了。安妮在7点半回到起居室,一边继续写作,一边等丈夫回家。她自小就想当一名作家。蓓蒂又在查理的房间里忙活了一阵,于7点50分左右离开。8点25分,查尔斯·林勃上校回到家里。晚饭后夫妻俩来到起居室。大约9点半左右,查尔斯觉得外面好像有什么动静,他对安妮说:“我好像听见了木头断裂的声音。”但谁也没有出去察看。也许是风雨刮断了树枝吧,这事以前发...
女人的私想—男人的内参。总的来说,现代社会还是一个以男性为主导的社会,媒体也几乎在男人的控制之下,于是,谈论女人的东西很多,因为男人最关心的就是女人。从女人的心理到生理,从阳光女孩、风情少妇到垂暮老妪,面面俱到,包罗万象。关于女性的报刊杂志、音像制品、各种传媒等更是遍布城镇乡村、街头巷尾。可是,谈论男人的东西却很少,即使有,大多数也是宣传男人的英雄主义和智谋、韬略,至于揭示男人情感内心的东西更是凤毛麟角,难得一见。为什么男人都不愿谈自己呢?大概是因为男人们有点害怕。如果男人们把自己的思想都暴露出来,那么女人对男人的想法就会知道得很多,男人也就没法再去耍弄一些并不高明的小手段,女人也不会继续再被男人的小聪明唬弄了。...
DEDICATION OF PART IITO THE COUNT OF LEMOS:THESE days past, when sending Your Excellency my plays, that hadappeared in print before being shown on the stage, I said, if Iremember well, that Don Quixote was putting on his spurs to go andrender homage to Your Excellency. Now I say that "with his spurs, heis on his way." Should he reach destination methinks I shall haverendered some service to Your Excellency, as from many parts I amurged to send him off, so as to dispel the loathing and disgust c
答应马大光的求婚时,汪晓妃正沉浸在一种前所未有的失意中不能自拔,这种感觉可以用“无家可归”来形容。红颜薄命,这是从十三岁就开始困扰汪晓妃的问题,那时候她那双注定要鹤立鸡群的长腿已经初具规模了。像她的闺中密友钟玉婕一样,汪晓妃从那些连篇累牍的言情电视剧中顺手牵羊牵来了一群青春偶像,养在心灵的羊圈里。少女朦胧的择偶标准也在十三岁那年确定了下来。既然电视剧里的女主人公都能整天不工作,惟一的职业就是在家呆着谈谈恋爱、发发脾气、做做家务,那么一点也不比她们逊色的她,一生也应该这样设计。而那个主宰她一生幸福的人,也应该是完美无缺、专为她而度身订做的,他要有企业家的经济实力,外交家的口才,还要有艺术家的风度。...
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Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value of Moneyby John Locke, 1691.Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value of Money In a letter sent to a Member of Parliament, 1691 London Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row,Sir, These Notions, concerning Coinage, having for the main, as you know, been put into Writing above Twelve Months since; as those other co