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简介：If we accept as our definition of an Epic:(a) A long poem, (b) of an interest not less than national[1], describing (c) in noble language (d) a series of naturally and organically connected actions (e...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：530 作者： 未知
简介：Tall and rawboned was Jeremiah Winthrop. Narrow of shoulder and shallow of chest he was, but no matter. There was a dignity to the man that showed itself in every movement....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：529 作者： 未知
简介：A number of soldiers were standing in the road near the bungalow of Brigadier-General Mathieson, the officer in command of the force in the cantonments of Benares and the surrounding district....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：529 作者： 未知
简介：It was the most extraordinary of speeches, considering the circumstances and place in which it was spoken. A parlour of very grim and homely aspect, furnished with dark mahogany and black haircloth, t...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：529 作者： 未知
简介：I wish I had been taught how to make a bed! complained Roland de Cligny, as he wrestled with his blanket in the half-darkness of the attic.You may think yourself lucky to have a bed to make! retorted ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：529 作者： 未知
简介：From the head of the platoon Lieutenant Lee Hartford signaled Sergeant Felix, busy policing up stragglers at the rear, that he was taking over. Hartford tongued the volume-setting of his bitcher to Lo...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：528 作者： 未知
简介：A Paradoxical philosopher, carrying to the uttermost length that aphorism of Montesquieu's, 'Happy the people whose annals are tiresome,' has said; 'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.' In which...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：528 作者： 未知
简介：During the year 1875 I published under title of The Native Races of the Pacific States what purports to be an exhaustive research into the character and customs of the aboriginal inhabitants of the we...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：528 作者： 未知
简介：The evils arising from religious persecution, sectarian hatred, ill government, and oppression were never more strongly illustrated than by the fact that, for a century, Ireland, which has since that ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：528 作者： 未知
简介：The Whitney household, in the western part of Maine, was filled with sunshine, merriment and delight, on a certain winter evening a few years ago....
