Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, Jamaicaby Anthony TrollopeThere is nothing so melancholy as a country in its decadence, unlessit be a people in their decadence. I am not aware that the lattermisfortune can be attributed to the Anglo-Saxon race in any part ofthe world; but there is reason to fear that it has fallen on anEnglish colony in the island of Jamaica.Jamaica was one of those spots on which fortune shone with the fullwarmth of all her noonday splendour. That sun has set;whether forever or no none but a prophet can tell; but as far as a plain man maysee, there are at present but few signs of a coming morrow, or ofanother summer.It is not just or proper that one should grieve over the misfortunesof Jamaica with a stronger grief because her savannahs are ...
The Uncommercial Travellerby Charles DickensCHAPTER I - HIS GENERAL LINE OF BUSINESSAllow me to introduce myself - first negatively.No landlord is my friend and brother, no chambermaid loves me, nowaiter worships me, no boots admires and envies me. No round ofbeef or tongue or ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie isespecially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personallyaddressed to me, no hotel-room tapestried with great-coats andrailway wrappers is set apart for me, no house of publicentertainment in the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion ofits brandy or sherry. When I go upon my journeys, I am not usuallyrated at a low figure in the bill; when I come home from my...
The ArgonauticaThe ArgonauticaApollonius Rhodius(fl. 3rd Century B.C.)1- Page 2-The ArgonauticaINTRODUCTIONMuch has been written about the chronology of Alexandrian literatureand the famous Library, founded by Ptolemy Soter, but the dates of thechief writers are still matters of conjecture. The birth of ApolloniusRhodius is placed by scholars at various times between 296 and 260 B.C.,while the year of his death is equally uncertain. In fact, we have very...
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENTHE DAISYby Hans Christian AndersenNow listen! In the country, close by the high road, stood afarmhouse; perhaps you have passed by and seen it yourself. Therewas a little flower garden with painted wooden palings in front of it;close by was a ditch, on its fresh green bank grew a little daisy; thesun shone as warmly and brightly upon it as on the magnificentgarden flowers, and therefore it thrived well. One morning it hadquite opened, and its little snow-white petals stood round theyellow centre, like the rays of the sun. It did not mind that nobodysaw it in the grass, and that it was a poor despised flower; on the...
说到香龙木，就不得不说到我的魔法渊源，说到我的魔法渊源，就不得不说到我的故乡—穆柯寨……我叫穆桂英，是大宋朝百万大军的北方元帅。不过，即使官儿已经做到了武将阶序的尽头，我还是习惯亲近的人叫我穆小妹。十七岁那一年，我遇到了命中注定的那个少年杨小保；二十七岁那一年，我生下了我和小保的小女儿金花；现在，我们的小女儿金花十七岁了，她准备把自己嫁给一个成衣匠。坐在轩敞简朴的营房中，朔北的凉风把金花从遥远的汴京寄来的洒金信笺吹得沙沙作响，洒金信笺散发出淡淡的梨花粉香，正如那个我已经多年没有回去过的都城留给我的富贵温暖的印象。我拿着金花的来信发了很长时间的呆。自从很久很久以前小保离去之后，我就选择了回到疆场继续守望边塞的战争生活。在别人看来，我完全可以有其他的选择，比如重新回到穆柯寨，继续做个山寨的寨主，或者重新回到黎山，去完成我当年成为世上最出色的魔法师的梦想。可是，只有我...
[苏]尼·诺索夫 著 朱立人 刘梦耄译[作品简介] 《“全不知”游太阳城》是“全不知”的三部曲的第二部。讲述了全不知在科学技术发达的太阳城的一系列奇遇。 喜欢幻想的全不知迷上了魔法，希望能够得到一根魔棍，实现自己所有的愿望。为了得到魔棍，他拼命做好事，可却没有什么结果。后来，一次偶然的机会，让他遇上了一位神奇的魔法师，他送给了全不知一根魔棍，但条件是他不能用魔法去做坏事。 全不知用魔法变出的汽车带着他和另外两个小矮子来到了太阳城，这里的科技发达，人们都过着幸福美好的生活，带着魔棍的全不知的到来，却打乱了这里的日常秩序，闹出了一连串的麻烦。他把这里的无辜的小矮子变成了驴子，又把动物园里的驴子变成了小矮子，还把警察局的墙也给弄倒了。当全不知在良心的谴责下，想用魔法把一切恢复原样的时候，却发现魔棍已经失灵了…… 这部《“全不知”游太阳城》（又名：《小无知游太阳城》...
The Jerusalem Sinner Savedor, GOOD NEWS FOR THE VILEST OF MENby John BunyanBEGINNING AT JERUSALEM.Luke xxiv. 47.The whole verse runs thus: "And that repentance and remission ofsins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning atJerusalem."The words were spoken by Christ, after he rose from the dead, andthey are here rehearsed after an historical manner, but do contain inthem a formal commission, with a special clause therein. Thecommission is, as you see, for the preaching of the gospel, and isvery distinctly inserted in the holy record by Matthew and Mark. "Goteach all nations," &c. "Go ye into all the world, and preach thegospel unto every creature." Matt. xxviii. 19; Mark xvi. 15. Onlythis cause is in special mentioned by Luke, who saith, ...
Second AprilEdna St. Vincent MillayTOMY BELOVED FRIENDCAROLINE B. DOWCONTENTSSPRING INLANDCITY TREES TO A POET THAT DIED YOUNGTHE BLUE-FLAG IN THE BOG WRAITHJOURNEY EBBEEL-GRASS ELAINEELEGY BEFORE DEATH BURIALTHE BEAN-STALK MARIPOSAWEEDS THE LITTLE HILLPASSER MORTUUS EST DOUBT NO MORE THAT OBERONPASTORAL LAMENTASSAULT EXILEDTRAVEL THE DEATH OF AUTUMNLOW-TIDE ODE TO SILENCE...
The Scouts of the Valleyby Joseph A. AltshelerCHAPTER ITHE LONE CANOEA light canoe of bark, containing a single human figure, moved swiftly up one of the twin streams that form the Ohio. The water, clear and deep, coming through rocky soil, babbled gently at the edges, where it lapped the land, but in the center the full current flowed steadily and without noise.The thin shadows of early dusk were falling, casting a pallid tint over the world, a tint touched here and there with living fire from the sun, which was gone, though leaving burning embers behind. One glowing shaft, piercing straight through the heavy forest that clothed either bank, fell directly upon the figure in the boat, as a hidden light illuminates a great picture, while the rest is left in shad...
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, V12BY CONSTANTPREMIER VALET DE CHAMBRETRANSLATED BY WALTER CLARK1895CONTENTS:CHAPTER XXIV. to CHAPTER XXXI.CHAPTER XXIV.After the brilliant successes obtained by the Emperor in such a shorttime, and with forces so exceedingly inferior to the great masses of theenemy, his Majesty, realizing the necessity of allowing his troops totake a rest of some days at Troyes, entered into negotiations for anarmistice with the Prince von Schwarzenberg.At this juncture it was announced to the Emperor that General Blucher,who had been wounded at Mery, was descending along both banks of theMaine, at the head of an army of fresh troops, estimated at not less thanone hundred thousand men, and that he was marching on Meaux. The Princ...
我打算到中国去。我将穿越中国香港与内地之间深圳河上的罗湖桥。在中国待上一段之后，不久我还将再度走过中国内地与香港之间深圳河上的罗湖桥。五种可变之物：罗湖桥深圳河香港中国尖顶布帽想想其他各种可能的顺序。我从未去过中国。我一直希望到中国去。一直。二此次旅行能满足心愿吗？问：（拖延时间）你是说去中国的愿望吗？答：随便什么愿望。是的。愿望的考古学。可它却是我的全部人生！别惊慌。"自白不足道，知识才重要。"这是一句引语，可是我不想说出是谁说的。一些提示：一位作家。一位智者。一位奥地利人(维也纳的犹太人)。一位避难者。...
吴思2004年春于北京话说中国的新窑子不仅仅是为了他们 孙立平 黑明是一个着力用镜头去记录普通人生存状态的摄影家。在他的多部摄影集里，都给人们展示了普通人的生活和感受。而在这本即将出版的《100年的新窑子》中，他则将态度镜头长时间地对准陕西一个小山村那几百口人落后而又普通的生活。 《100年的新窑子》首先给我的一个强烈视觉冲击就是那几十幅标准的“标准像”。黑明告诉我，这是他用自己一台最大的相机拍摄的。也许我可以这样认为，这大概是迄今为止为农民拍摄的一组“质量”最好的标准像了。这倒让我想起一件事情来。在二十多年前粉碎“四人帮”的时候，揭发出来王洪文的罪行之一，就是私自拍摄了标准像，以便为他篡夺党和国家领导权做准备。这件事情虽然已经过去了二十多年，但也说明，在我们的政治和社会生活中，标准像，而且不是挂在自己家里的标准像，是一件多么郑重其事的事情，是一件有着多么重大政...
MY KINSMAN, MAJOR MOLINEUXAfter the kings of Great Britain had assumed the right ofappointing the colonial governors, the measures of the latterseldom met with the ready and generous approbation which had beenpaid to those of their predecessors, under the original charters.The people looked with most jealous scrutiny to the exercise ofpower which did not emanate from themselves, and they usuallyrewarded their rulers with slender gratitude for the compliancesby which, in softening their instructions from beyond the sea,they had incurred the reprehension of those who gave them. Theannals of Massachusetts Bay will inform us, that of six governorsin the space of about forty years from the surrender of the oldcharter, under James II, two were imprisoned by a popular...
A Woman of Thirtyby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Ellen MarriageDEDICATIONTo Louis Boulanger, Painter.A WOMAN OF THIRTYI.EARLY MISTAKESIt was a Sunday morning in the beginning of April 1813, a morning which gave promise of one of those bright days when Parisians, for the first time in the year, behold dry pavements underfoot and a cloudless sky overhead. It was not yet noon when a luxurious cabriolet, drawn by two spirited horses, turned out of the Rue de Castiglione into the Rue de Rivoli, and drew up behind a row of carriages standing before the newly opened barrier half-way down the Terrasse de Feuillants. The owner of the carriage looked anxious and out of health; the thin hair on his sallow temples, turning gray already, gave a look of premature age to his f...
THE WITCH IN THE STONE BOAT[31][31] From the Icelandic.There were once a King and a Queen, and they had a son calledSigurd, who was very strong and active, and good-looking. Whenthe King came to be bowed down with the weight of years he spoketo his son, and said that now it was time for him to look out fora fitting match for himself, for he did not know how long hemight last now, and he would like to see him married before hedied.Sigurd was not averse to this, and asked his father where hethought it best to look for a wife. The King answered that in acertain country there was a King who had a beautiful daughter,and he thought it would be most desirable if Sigurd could gether. So the two parted, and Sigurd prepared for the journey, and...
第一部分 1.2001年，格拉纳达（1）几分钟前，这两个女人刚刚落座。这两位来得最晚的观众刚一进场，粗鲁的吉卜赛看门人就迫不及待地插上了门闩。五个少女走了进来，每一个都长裙曳地、乌发如云，紧绷在身上的衣衫明艳绚烂，火红、橘黄、翠绿，还有泛着赭石色的明黄。跳跃的色彩，加上她们翩然而过时留下的丰厚而浓郁的香水味，令她们的出场充满了强烈而刻意的戏剧感。跟在她们身后的是三个男人，衣着打扮庄重得好像要参加葬礼，从油亮的头发到手工皮鞋清一色是黑的。随后，一阵纤细而空灵的击掌声打破了现场的沉默，声音非常柔弱，仿佛只是一只手掌轻轻触碰了另一只。接着是一个男人用手指拂过琴弦的声音。另一个男人的琴声则像是低沉而幽怨的呜咽。在这呜咽声中男人开始唱歌，沙哑的嗓音与简陋的环境以及他满是疤痕的脸非常相称。唱词中复杂莫测的方言只有他和队友才懂，但观众仍然能够猜出其中的意味-恋人离去。...
The Coming Raceby Edward Bulwer LyttonChapter I.I am a native of _____, in the United States of America. My ancestors migrated from England in the reign of Charles II.; and my grandfather was not undistinguished in the War of Independence. My family, therefore, enjoyed a somewhat high social position in right of birth; and being also opulent, they were considered disqualified for the public service. My father once ran for Congress, but was signally defeated by his tailor. After that event he interfered little in politics, and lived much in his library. I was the eldest of three sons, and sent at the age of sixteen to the old country, partly to complete my literary education, partly to commence my commercial training in a mercantile firm at Liverpool. My fath...
《网游之真相》作者：千面帅菇正文 第一集第一章历年怪梦冷惊然瞬然从梦中惊醒，苦笑着摇了摇头，他还是没有明白这个陪伴了他8年多的怪梦到底有什么含义，是不是和他一直在追寻的身世有关？他从10岁那年就开始做这个梦。那是一个很奇怪的地方，有一条很宽的路，至少可以并排开20辆大卡车的路。整条路用一种他从没见过的材料铺成，散发着朦胧的七彩光芒，给人的感觉非常宁静，宁静中又透着一股威严。路的一边是一个一望无际的大平原，平原上有各种生物，这些生物他非但没见过，连想象都想象不出。它们有的就趴在地上假寐，有的在慢慢地散步，还有的在四处奔跑。平原上有草，有土，有山，而且空气中有一层薄薄的雾，如梦如幻。另一边竟然是一片海域，微风拂过，水面荡漾着一圈圈的波纹。海面上浮着好些没见过的海兽，海中央还有几座小岛，岛上隐约能见缓缓爬行的两栖生物。这条分割着平原和海域的奇怪的大路，它的尽头有两座很雄伟的...