类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Being in Lisbon in October last, I sauntered one evening into the Livraria Bertrand, a recognised meeting-place of men of letters in the Chiado, still the principal street of the Capital, and now known officially as the Rua Garrett, though, in practi...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： When elder brothers insisted on their rights with undue harshness, or when the grown-up people descended from Olympus with a tiresome tale of broken furniture and torn clothes, the groundlings of the schoolroom went into retreat. In summer-time this...
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简介： We meet to-day under a sense of profound thanksgiving. With the rest of the nation we have been praying for a righteous peace; and now we trust that through Gods great, and abounding, mercy, such a peace has been secured....
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简介： HE thought he had already, poor John Berridge, tasted in their fulness the sweets of success; but nothing yet had been more charming to him than when the young Lord, as he irresistibly and, for greater certitude, quite correctly figured him, fairly s...
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简介： ONE BEAUTIFUL morning in early June in the year nineteen hundred and forty-eight a motorist was driving slowly along a lonely and rough road that wound between the salt marshes and the sea in the extreme north of the countryside of Norfolk. With his...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Forster tells us that Dickens, in his later novels, from Bleak House onwards (1853), assiduously cultivated construction, this essential of his art. Some critics may think, that since so many of the best novels in the world have no outline, or, if th...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The speaker was Godfrey Evansa tall, raw-boned man, dressed in a tattered, brown jean suit. He was barefooted, his toil-hardened hands and weather-beaten face were sadly soiled and begrimed, and his hair and whiskers looked as though they had never b...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Why, Cousin Raymond, how can you suppose? Why, shes only sixteen!She told me she was seventeen, said the young man, as if it made a great difference....
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简介： The Bible has been compared to a river in which a child may wade, and an elephant swim; by which is meant that it is full of practical truth so plainly revealed that a little child may rejoice in it, while at the same time it is full of truth so deep...
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简介： Of that vast intellectual movement which prepared the way for the most stupendous event in history, the French Revolution, Voltaire was the creative spirit....
