类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： OLD AND NEW.See how the Autumn leaves float by, decaying,Down the red whirls of yon rain-swollen stream;So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.Nay! see the Spring blossoms steal forth a-maying,C...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It was one dark, dank, dreary, dismal night in February, 1888 (I believe that is the way to commence a book, no matter what the subject be), when the present writer might have been seen standing, with other gentlemen, in a sombre dining-room brillian...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Blue Bonnet came up the steps of the long, low ranch house, and threw herself listlessly back in one of the deep veranda chairs....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It was a lucid, rain-washed morningone of those rare mornings when London seems to laugh before you, disclosing her random beauties. In every park the trees were hung with adolescent tresses, green and white and yellow, and the sky was busy with scud...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Spring had come to the West Country, a joyous spring laden with soft airs and odours of distant flowering lands, and filling the hearts of men with a restless delight. It seemed impossible not to be happy, with a blue sky flecked by little clouds run...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The day Beardsley left his stool and ledger in a London insurance office and betook himself seriously to the illustration of that strange comic world of Congreve, a new manifestation of English art blossomed. It had, no doubt, been a long time germin...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I ever had the name of one that kept to himself, nor was bedfellow to none upon the high toby. 'Tis true enough that I have mixed in one or two affairs with others of my kidney, but these were mainly in my heady youth and when I was raw upon the pad,...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Some forty years ago the commencement and partial preparation of this work assisted to beguile the tedium of a winters residence from home, where even Orange and Magnolia groves with the novel vegetation of a semi-tropical region, could scarcely disp...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： If anybody wanted to go down and have a look round Northbourne for himself, it would be necessary to take a railway journey as far as Brattlesby town, and then tramp the rest of the road, unless a friendly chance befell the traveller of a lift in som...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The aim of the present volume is to deal with Old English Customs, not so much in their picturesque aspectthough that element is not wholly wantingas in their fundamental relations to the organized life of the Middle Ages. Partly for that reason and...
