Flower of the MindandLater Poemsby Alice MeynellINTRODUCTIONPartial collections of English poems, decided by a common subjector bounded by narrow dates and periods of literary history, aremade at very short intervals, and the makers are safe from thereproach of proposing their own personal taste as a guide for thereading of others. But a general Anthology gathered from the wholeof English literaturethe whole from Chaucer to Wordsworthby agatherer intent upon nothing except the quality of poetr
高天不用睁开眼睛,已经可以察觉到屋内那诡异的气氛。他躺在那里,周围的一切都像被赋予了特别的力量似的,全部向他沉沉地压来,他的胸口仿佛压着一座大山。一瞬间他的呼吸急促起来,脑子被恐惧和焦虑完全占据。然而他还是睁开了眼睛,颇有些费力地、挣扎着微微睁开眼睛,带着仿佛不睁开眼睛就什么也不会发生的神情。他轻轻地睁开眼睛,眼前一片模糊,屋内昏暗无光,空气潮湿沉闷,如同一股混浊的气流将他整个儿地裹挟起来。他就快要晕过去了,他就快要窒息了。然而他还是看见了。看见了那个熟悉的男人,那个可怖的身影。他的身体又控制不住地颤抖起来,他惊恐地想要大声呼喊,脖子却好像被人掐住了一样,怎么也发不出声音。随后,他的身体完全僵硬了,他一动不动地躺在那里,正像一只绝望的、待宰的羔羊。...
The Chaperonby Henry JamesCHAPTER I.An old lady, in a high drawing-room, had had her chair moved close tothe fire, where she sat knitting and warming her knees. She wasdressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered,however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips inobedience to something that was passing in her mind. She was farfrom the lamp, but though her eyes were fixed upon her active needlesshe was not looking at them. What she really saw was quite
你无法对抗未来。时间总是随我们前进。——W.E.格莱斯通,1809—1898或者我们把握未来,或者未来左右我们。第三个千年以一个盛大的派对开场了,人们的欢庆还未结束就不得不面对随之而来的网络经济崩溃噩梦、美国经济衰退、企业丑闻、“9·11”事件、阿富汗和伊拉克战争,以及所有即将发生的一切。在未来,一切都可能出现,这就是为什么我们迫切需要一幅可以展现未来的全景画卷去为将来做长期规划,否则在纷至沓来的一切中我们将失去重点和方向。我们必须要洞悉未来。这意味着我们要在生活各个方面计划明天,考虑未来,为一切可能出现的相反结果做好准备。洞悉未来不仅仅是要预测未来,还意味着塑造未来、创造历史、应对突发事件、抢占先机。新千年的开端是人类生活的黄金时代。人类在近几个世纪经历了世界的巨大转变:从逐步席卷全球的工业革命到战后科技的腾飞再到网络技术的迅猛发展,而新的千年将见证人类历史上对人类生存的最大...
Chastelard, A TragedyBy Algernon Charles SwingurnePERSONS.MARY STUART.MARY BEATON.MARY SEYTON.MARY CARMICHAEL.MARY HAMILTON.PIERRE DE BOSCOSEL DE CHASTELARD.DARNLEY.MURRAY.RANDOLPH.MORTON.LINDSAY.FATHER BLACK.Guards, Burgesses, a Preacher, Citizens, &c.Another Yle is there toward the Northe, in the See Occean,where that ben fulle cruele and ful evele Wommen of Nature:...
《陷落异星》作者:蓝色天体陷落异星 楔子犹如风车叶轮般的耀眼悬臂里汇集了数量庞大的恒星。这是银河系四大悬臂之一的边缘。这个不起眼的星系里早已进化出智能生物创造的文明。他们称自己所在的星系为普休系。普休系,有13颗行星围绕着炽燃的太阳飞行。接近太阳的第5颗行星是这个星系文明的发祥地。如今这个文明已经裂变为三大阵营。在更远离太阳的位置上,第7颗名为津卡玛的行星上,已经感受不到多少太阳的热量了。厚重阴冷的天幕下,波涛汹涌的深色海洋覆盖着行星的大部分表面。荒凉的大陆和岛屿上罕见人迹。津卡玛近卫军第12特勤队的舰艇停泊在凄冷的海面上。在舰队前方正北位置上是神秘的撒根岛。这个小岛在上亿年里向北极方向漂移了不少。在岛的中央,有一个巨大而古老的环状结构。伴随着低沉隆隆的响声,它正在发光发热。...
Dream Daysby Kenneth GrahameContentsTHE TWENTY-FIRST OF OCTOBERDIES IRAEMUTABILE SEMPERTHE MAGIC RINGITS WALLS WERE AS OF JASPERA SAGA OF THE SEASTHE RELUCTANT DRAGONA DEPARTUREDream DaysTHE TWENTY-FIRST OFOCTOBERIn the matter of general culture and attainments, we youngstersstood on pretty level ground. True, it was always happening that...
The Golden BoughA Study in Magic and Religionby Sir James George FrazerCONTENTSPrefaceSubject IndexChapter 1. The King of the Wood1. Diana and Virbius2. Artemis and Hippolytus3. RecapitulationChapter 2. Priestly KingsChapter 3. Sympathetic Magic1. The Principles of Magic2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic3. Contagious Magic4. The Magicians ProgressChapter 4. Magic and ReligionChapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather...
The Perils of Certain English Prisonersby Charles DickensCHAPTER ITHE ISLAND OF SILVER-STOREIt was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty-four, that I, Gill Davis to command, His Mark, having then thehonour to be a private in the Royal Marines, stood a-leaning overthe bulwarks of the armed sloop Christopher Columbus, in the SouthAmerican waters off the Mosquito shore.My lady remarks to me, before I go any further, that there is no...
Children of the Whirlwindby Leroy ScottCHAPTER IIt was an uninspiring bit of street: narrow, paved with cobble; hot and noisy in summer, reeking with unwholesome mud during the drizzling and snow-slimed months of winter. It looked anything this May after noon except a starting-place for drama. But, then, the great dramas of life often avoid the splendid estates and trappings with which conventional romance would equip them, and have their beginnings in unlikeliest environment; and thence sweep
THE WRECK OF THE GOLDEN MARYTHE WRECK OF THEGOLDEN MARYCharles Dickens1- Page 2-THE WRECK OF THE GOLDEN MARYTHE WRECKI was apprenticed to the Sea when I was twelve years old, and I haveencountered a great deal of rough weather, both literal and metaphorical. Ithas always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an...
Stories from Pentameroneby Giambattista BasileNOTEThe collection of folk-tales known as Il Pentamerone was firstpublished at Naples and in the Neopolitan dialect, by GiambattistaBasile, Conte di Torrone, who is believed to have collected themchiefly in Crete and Venice, and to have died about the year 1637.CONTENTS1. How the Tales came to be told2. The Myrtle3. Peruonto4. Vardiello5. The Flea6. Cenerentola7. The Merchant8. Goat-Face...
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