类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：541 作者： 未知
简介：A monuments dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. We are not here trying to carve an epic, portray a moonlight scene, or write a sonnet; neither...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：540 作者： 未知
简介：It was the afternoon of Christmas Eve, sinking towards the night. All day long the wintry light had been diluted with fog, and now the vanguard of the darkness coming to aid the mist, the dying day wa...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：540 作者： 未知
简介：HAY, verbena and mignonette scented the languid July day. Large strawberries, crimsoning through sprigs of mint, floated in a bowl of pale yellow cup on the verandah table: an old Georgian bowl, with ...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：540 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介：On a brilliant summer morning in the last quarter of the seventeenth century a small troop of horsemen crossed the ford of the river Cairn, in Dumfriesshire, not far from the spot where stands the lit...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：539 作者： 未知
简介：That portion of Cumberland and Westmorland, which is popularly known as the Lake District, is the holiday ground of a great number of persons who delight in its splendid scenery of mountain, wood and ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：539 作者： 未知
简介：The little buds on the rosebushes seen in the warm spring days and which later on in the early summer open to become the beautiful flowers, are controlled and governed in their development by the same...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：539 作者： 未知
简介：When I was a boy at school, if I remember rightly, our sympathies were generally with the Carthaginians as against the Romans. Why they were so, except that one generally sympathizes with the unfortun...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：539 作者： 未知
简介：There was once a little Kid whose growing horns made him think he was a grown-up Billy Goat and able to take care of himself. So one evening when the flock started home from the pasture and his mother...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：538 作者： 未知
简介：The older I grow, Mr. E. V. Lucas has said, the less, I find, do I want to read about anything but human beings.... But human beings, as human beings, are not enough; they must, to interest me, have q...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：537 作者： 未知
简介：Whoever supposes that Mess. Heber and Pond, or even Mr. John Cheney, were the first who published accounts of Horse-racing, will find himself much mistaken, for there lived others above a hundred year...
