13 Hints For Those That Would Be Rich 致富之道 Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林 The Use of Money is all the Advantage there is in having Money. For £ 6 a Year you may have the Use of £ 100 if you are a Man of known Prudence and Honesty...
12 A Summer Day 夏日 Charles Dickens 查尔斯?狄更斯 One day thirty years ago Marseilles lay in the burning sun. A blazing non upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then than at any other time before or since. Every-...
11 I Remember, I Remember 我记得,我记得 By Thomas Hood 托马斯胡德 I remember, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping m at morn(1); He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day,(2)...
10 About Reading Books 谈读书 Virginia Woolf 维吉尼亚.吴尔夫 It is simple enough to say that since books have class- es -- fiction, biography, poetry -- we should separate them and take from each what it is right that each should give us....
9 Night 夜 Nathaniel Hawthorne 纳撒尼尔霍桑 Night has fallen over the country. Through the trees rises the red moon, and the stars are scarcely seen. In the vast shadow of night the coolness and the dews descend. I sit at the open window to en...
8 The Dervise And The Four Robbers 托钵僧和四个贼(寓言) Richard Doddridge Blackmore 理查德D布莱克默 A Dervise had once made a purchase of a fine fat sheep, intending to offer it up in sacrifice; and having tied a cord about its neck,...
7 The Beauty Of Pisa In The Afternoon 午后比萨之美 John Ruskin 约翰罗斯金 On each side of a bright river he saw rise a line of brighter palaces, arched and pillared, and inlaid with deep red porphyry, and with serpentine(2); along the quay...
5 Crossing The Rubicon 越过卢比孔河 James Baldwin 詹姆斯.鲍德温 The march to Italy was begun. The soldiers were even more enthusiastic than caesar (2) himself. They climb- ed mountains, waded rivers, endured fatigue, faced all kinds of...
5 Crossing The Rubicon 越过卢比孔河 James Baldwin 詹姆斯.鲍德温 The march to Italy was begun. The soldiers were even more enthusiastic than caesar (2) himself. They climb- ed mountains, waded rivers, endured fatigue, faced all kinds of...
4 The Angler 钓鱼翁 Washingthon Irving 华盛顿.欧文 How comforting it is to see a cheerful and contented old age; and to behold a poor fellow, like this, after being tempest-tost through life, safely moored in a snug and quiet harbour in the...