End NotesNOTE TO CHAPTER I.Note A.-The Ranger or the Forest, that cuts theforeclaws off our dogs.A most sensible grievance of those aggrieved times were theForest Laws. These oppressive enactments were the produce ofthe Norman Conquest, for the Saxon laws of the chase weremild and humane; while those of William, enthusiastically attachedto the exercise and its rights, were to the last degreetyrannical. The formation of the New Forest, bears evidence...
The Prophet of Berkeley Squareby Robert HichensCHAPTER IMRS. MERILLIA IS CARRIED TO BEDThe great telescope of the Prophet was carefully adjusted upon itslofty, brass-bound stand in the bow window of Number One ThousandBerkeley Square. It pointed towards the remarkably bright stars whichtwinkled in the December sky over frosty London, those guardian starswhich always seemed to the Prophet to watch with peculiar solicitudeover the most respectable neighbourhood in which he resided. The...
The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retzby Cardinal de RetzHISTORIC COURT MEMOIRS.THE ENTIRE MEMOIRS OF JEAN FRANCOIS PAUL de GONDI, CARDINAL DE RETZWritten by HimselfBeing Historic Court Memoirs of the Great Events during the Minority ofLouis XIV. and the Administration of Cardinal Mazarin.ORIGINAL PREFACE.Our Author, John Francis Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, Sovereign of Commercy, Prince of Euville, second Archbishop of Paris, Abbot of Saint Denis in France, was born at Montmirail, in Brie, in Oct
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The Madonna of the Futureby Henry JamesWe had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a singlemasterpiecethe artists and poets who but once in their lives hadknown the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection.Our host had been showing us a charming little cabinet picture by apainter whose name we had never heard, and who, after this singlespasmodic bid for fame, had apparently relapsed into obscurity andmediocrity. There was some discussion as to the frequency of th
她走在街上,满怀激情地幻想着自己成了剧中的角色;一整段的忧郁或快乐的独白脱口而出——生活比戏剧更叫人惊叹,她心花怒放……每一天,她都在憧憬,她渴望被发现,也试图利用各种机会将自己点亮,会有更多人认识她、记住她、欣赏她乃至迷恋她;这是她对自己人生的一个期待…… 嘉宝,一个曼妙绝伦的名字。从最淫荡的妓女到最高贵的女王,她演绎不同身份、不同性格的女性,以其冷峻娇美、楚楚动人的神态和细腻逼真、荡气回肠的表演,被美国影评界称做“好莱坞有史以来最伟大的女性”,同时也是好莱坞乃至世界电影有史以来最神秘的女性。很多人以为她是天使,是祈祷美丽的对象。她因在美国好莱坞现身为全世界的人们所认识和铭记,而最早有幸拥有她、发现她的是瑞典人——瑞典是嘉宝的故乡。 她喜欢对人们讲述她做过的梦 瑞典地处北欧,偏于寒冷,常年阴雨连绵,时有狂烈风暴发生。除了和挪威接壤,周边便是湛蓝的海...
THE STORY OF BIG KLAUS AND LITTLE KLAUSIn a certain village there lived two people who had both the samename. Both were called Klaus, but one owned four horses and theother only one. In order to distinguish the one from the other,the one who had four horses was called Big Klaus, and the one whohad only one horse, Little Klaus. Now you shall hear what befellthem both, for this is a true story.The whole week through Little Klaus had to plough for Big Klaus,...
TIMOLEON411?-337 B.C.by Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenIT was for the sake of others that I first commenced writingbiographies; but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to itfor my own; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort oflooking-glass, in which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life.Indeed, it can be compared to nothing but daily living and associating...
The White Mr. Longfellowby William Dean HowellsWe had expected to stay in Boston only until we could find a house in OldCambridge. This was not so simple a matter as it might seem; for theancient town had not yet quickened its scholarly pace to the modern step.Indeed, in the spring of 1866 the impulse of expansion was not yetvisibly felt anywhere; the enormous material growth that followed thecivil war had not yet begun. In Cambridge the houses to be let were few,...
THE ENCHANTED CANARYIONCE upon a time, in the reign of King Cambrinus, there lived atAvesnes one of his lords, who was the finest manby which Imean the fattestin the whole country of Flanders. He ate fourmeals a day, slept twelve hours out of the twenty-four, and the onlything he ever did was to shoot at small birds with his bow andarrow.Still, with all his practice he shot very badly, he was so fat andheavy, and as he grew daily fatter, he was at last obliged to give up...