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简介：It is a solemn yet pleasant duty to compile in comprehensive order the records of a life so eventful and influential as that of Bayard Taylor. It is solemn, because the sad tears which began to flow a...
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简介：The speaker was Mr. Brigham. As he uttered these words he placed his hat and gloves on the table, and looked down at his son Lester, who had just entered the library in obedience to the summons he had...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：514 作者： 未知
简介：There is no country in the world where the study of character is more indulged in than in the United States of America. During my many visits there I could not help remarking how even the hardest head...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：514 作者： 未知
简介：A quick, sharp report rent the air. Followed several seconds of deathlike silence. Then the lesser sound of a twig falling in the still forest. Again silence. A silence, tense, portentous. Then the so...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：514 作者： 未知
简介：That human art in which it is most difficult to achieve this end (and in which it is far easier to neglect it than in any other) is the art of writing. Yet this much is certain, that unconstructed wri...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：513 作者： 未知
简介：For a brief instant following her spoken pledge, an eloquent silence reigned over the circle of picturesque figures seated about the brightly-blazing camp fire. Then a storm of acclamation rent the st...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：513 作者： 未知
简介：In the following pages I have endeavoured to give a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of the French--Calcutta at the mercy of ...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：513 作者： 未知
简介：PRISCILLA'S trunk was neatly packed. It was a new trunk and had a nice canvas covering over it. The canvas was bound with red braid, and Priscilla's initials were worked on the top in large plain lett...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：513 作者： 未知
简介：The September sun was glinting cheerfully into a pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced on the glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sat together hemming ruffles for a white muslin dres...
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简介：I have the pleasure of laying before the New York Historical Society a brief account of the progress which has been made during the past year towards extending our knowledge of the globe, particularly...
