HISTORY OF FLORENCEAND OF THE AFFAIRS OF ITALYFROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THEDEATH OF LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENTby Niccolo MachiavelliWith an Introduction byHUGO ALBERT RENNERT, Ph.D.Professor of Romanic Languages and Literature,University of Pennsylvania.INTRODUCTIONNiccolo Machiavelli, the first great Italian historian, and one of themost eminent political writers of any age or country, was born at...
]第一部分序曲(1)作者 : 龙非非 某小国地下交易市场。 喧闹与颓废…… 就像有太阳的地方总有阴影,有光明的地方也会有密不透风的黑暗。这是一个与世隔绝的另类世界。 剧院般布置的大厅中,奢华的天鹅绒厚帘和端着美酒穿梭来往的服务美女营造出了一种金钱的味道。各种肤色的人全都聚集在这里,俨然一副地球村的和睦景象。有交头接耳,窃窃私语的,也有聚精会神看手中所持的物品清单的,更多的则是仔细侧耳听着台上主持人绘声绘色的描述。但这一切的背后隐藏的却是令人瑟缩的萎靡。 如果前面的那些算是华丽,那这后面的贵宾室就可以被称之为奢侈了。有着因年代久远而散发着浓郁古韵的黄花梨木桌椅,有着在昏黄灯光下仍萦绕着晶芒的银制器具,仅角落不起眼处一个看似简单的半臂雕塑只怕价钱也会超出你的想象。东方和西方,两种文化在这种地方产生了碰撞,只是可笑的是这种碰撞只让人感到俗气。刻意堆砌出来的只能是奢...
野蛮班级作者:松海VS浪涛第一章 麻烦上身 “请大家安静一下!”班主任杨老师站在讲台上宣布道,“今天我们班新来了一位同学,他现在就在门口,大家欢迎!” 杨老师说完率先鼓起掌来,可是班上却只有十几个同学的零星掌声,而且全是女生,男生一个也没有,仿佛这几十人的班级就只有这是几个女生欢迎我。不过也难怪,谁让我执意要转到这个班呢! 据说这高二九班是这所中学最难管理的班级,迟到,早退,旷课,逃学,打架,骂人,顶撞师长,吸烟,酗酒……几乎校规上所有条款都犯得如家常便饭,而且还曾罢过一个星期的课,缘由只是想让学校多开几节体育课。学校想尽一切办法高薪聘请教师来带这个班,但请来的教师都干不到一个月就辞职了,原因只有一个:这个班的学生太顽劣了。...
Augustus Does His Bitby George Bernard ShawI wish to express my gratitude for certain good offices whichAugustus secured for me in January,1917. I had been invited tovisit the theatre of war in Flanders by the Commander-in-Chief:an invitation which was, under the circumstances, a summons toduty. Thus I had occasion to spend some days in procuringthe necessary passport and other official facilities formy journey. It happened just then that the Stage Society gave a...
Main Street and Other Poemsby Joyce KilmerTo Mrs. Edmund LeamyContentsMain StreetRoofsThe Snowman in the YardA Blue ValentineHousesIn MemoryApologyThe Proud PoetLionel JohnsonFather Gerard Hopkins, S. J.Gates and DoorsThe Robe of ChristThe Singing GirlThe AnnunciationRosesThe VisitationMultiplicationThanksgivingThe ThornThe Big TopQueen Elizabeth Speaks...
The Silverado Squattersby Robert Louis StevensonTHE scene of this little book is on a high mountain. Thereare, indeed, many higher; there are many of a nobler outline.It is no place of pilgrimage for the summary globe-trotter;but to one who lives upon its sides, Mount Saint Helena soonbecomes a centre of interest. It is the Mont Blanc of onesection of the Californian Coast Range, none of its nearneighbours rising to one-half its altitude. It looks down on...
--楔子伯大尼育幼院孤伶寂寥的瘦削身影独自抱膝坐在菜圃旁,冷淡的双眼漠然注视着操场中嬉戏玩闹的院童们,清秀俊俏的小脸上是超乎年龄的孤傲疏离与愤世讥诮。在操场另一头,修女院长轮流指着操场中的幼童一一介绍着,而她身旁一身华服、五十多岁的中年夫妇虽然频频点头,两双视线却始终不约而同地凝住在那个高傲的男孩身上。中年夫妇牵着的粉妆玉琢般的精致小女娃又蹦又跳地,似乎是想挣脱父母的桎梏冲到操场中和幼童们一块儿玩耍。多年的默契使中年夫妇同时放松了手,他们看着小女孩如飞出牢笼的小鸟般卖力地摆动两只短短的小腿往前冲向操场,掠过玩乐中的院童,而且如他们所期待般地停顿在高傲的男孩身前蹲下。听不见她说什么,只看得见她两手直挥舞,热切地想表达出自己的意思。...
--《网王之谁是我的小王子》网王之谁是我的小王子 看漫画的惩罚“嫣染,看完了没,一起去吃晚饭吧?”小优轻声问我。“不了,我还想去书店。”“你没问题吧!在图书馆泡了一天,还要去书店,杜嫣染,你也早晚被书砸死!早知道我就不来找你了。”小优站起来大叫,引来无数鄙夷的视线。“抱歉,不能陪你了。”不理会她的咆哮,我迅速步出图书馆,自动忽略身后小声的议论和探究的目光。“那女的就是杜嫣染,同时拿到三个博士学位的杜嫣染?”“不是说她只有22岁吗,怎么穿得像个大婶?”“拜托,你不会指望那种书虫是美女吧,怎么可能...”“杜小姐,你要的书还没找到,抱歉又让你白跑一趟。”老板娘无奈的对我说,果然那种书太生僻了。“没关系,我今天还要看看别的,就拜托您继续帮我找了。”我开始在架子上随意搜索。...
The Itinerary of Archibishop Baldwin through Walesby Giraldus CambrensisINTRODUCTIONGerald the Welshman - Giraldus Cambrensis - was born, probably in 1147, at Manorbier Castle in the county of Pembroke. His father was a Norman noble, William de Barri, who took his name from the little island of Barry off the coast of Glamorgan. His mother, Angharad, was the daughter of Gerald de Windsor {1} by his wife, the famous Princess Nesta, the "Helen of Wales," and the daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr Mawr,