Anne McCaffreyIntroductionOurs not to ponder what were fair in Life,But, finding what may be,Make it fair up to our means. When mankind first discovered Pern, third planet of the sun Rukbat, in the Sagittarian Sector, they paid little attention to the eccentric orbit of another satellite in the system. Settling the new planet, adjusting to its differences, the colonists spread out across the southern, most hospitable continent. Then disaster struck in the form of a rain of mycorrhizoid organisms, which voraciously devoured all but stone, metal, and water. The initial losses were staggering.
The Captivesby Hugh WalpoleTOARNOLD BENNETTWITH DEEP AFFECTION"I confess that I do not see why the very existence of an invisible world may not in part depend on the personal response which any of us may make to the religious appeal. God Himself, in short, may draw vital strength and increase of very being from our fidelity. For my own part I do not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this. If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatric
KING HENRY THE FIFTHKING HENRY THEFIFTHWilliam Shakespeare15991- Page 2-KING HENRY THE FIFTHPROLOGUEEnter CHORUSCHORUS. O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightestheaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchsto behold the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,...
THE AMAZING INTERLUDETHE AMAZINGINTERLUDEby Mary Roberts Rinehart- Page 2-THE AMAZING INTERLUDECHAPTER IThe stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has formost of us but one setting. It is furnished out with approximately the samethings. Characters come, move about and make their final exits throughlong-familiar doors. And the back drop remains approximately the samefrom beginning to end. Palace or hovel, forest or sea, it is the background...
How to Learn Any LanguageQuickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and On Your OwnbyBarry FarberFounder of the Language Club/Nationally Syndicated Talk Show HostTo Bibi and Celia, for the pleasure of helping teach themtheir first language, followed by the pleasure of having themthen teach me their second!ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: My Story...
THE CRUISE OF THE JASPER B.THE CRUISE OF THEJASPER B.BY DON MARQUIS1- Page 2-THE CRUISE OF THE JASPER B.CHAPTER IA BRIGHT BLADE LEAPSFROM A RUSTY SCABBARDOn an evening in April, 191-, Clement J. Cleggett walked sedately intothe news room of the New York Enterprise with a drab-colored walking-stick in his hand. He stood the cane in a corner, changed his sober street...
The Master of Mrs. Chilversby Jerome K. JeromeTHE FIRST ACTSCENE: Drawing-room, 91, Russell Square.TIME: 3 p.m.THE SECOND ACTSCENE: Liberal Committee Room, East India Dock Road.TIME: 5 p.m.THE THIRD ACTSCENE: The Town Hall, East Poplar.TIME: 10 p.m.THE FOURTH ACTSCENE: Russell SquareTIME: MidnightTHE CAST OF "THE MASTER OF MRS. CHILVERS"AS IT WAS PRODUCED AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE, LONDON, ON APRIL 26TH,1911, UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MESSRS. VEDRENNE & EADIE.Lady Mogton Mary RorkeAnnys Chilvers Lena Ashwell...
INDIAN BOYHOOD BY OHIYESAINDIAN BOYHOOD BYOHIYESA(CHARLES A. EASTMAN)1- Page 2-INDIAN BOYHOOD BY OHIYESAI Earliest RecollectionsI: Hadakah, "The Pitiful Last"WHAT boy would not be an Indian for a while when he thinks of thefreest life in the world? This life was mine. Every day there was a realhunt. There was real game. Occasionally there was a medicine dance...
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENTHE SNOW MANby Hans Christian Andersen"IT is so delightfully cold," said the Snow Man, "that it makes mywhole body crackle. This is just the kind of wind to blow life intoone. How that great red thing up there is staring at me!" He meant thesun, who was just setting. "It shall not make me wink. I shallmanage to keep the pieces."He had two triangular pieces of tile in his head, instead of eyes;his mouth was made of an old broken rake, and was, of course,...
SIR THOMAS MORESIR THOMAS MOREShakespeare1- Page 2-SIR THOMAS MOREDRAMATIS PERSONAE.Earl of SHREWSBURY. Earl of SURREY. Sir THOMAS PALMER.Sir ROGER CHOMLEY. Sir THOMAS MORE. Lord Mayor. Aldermen.SURESBY, a Justice. Other Justices. Sheriffs. Recorder. Sergeant at Arms.Clerk of the Council. ERASMUS. Bishop of Rochester. ROPER, son-in-law to MORE. JOHN LINCOLN, a broker. GEORGE BETTS. His brother...
MOBY DICKOR THE WHALEby Herman MelvilleETYMOLOGY(Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School)The pale Usher- threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I seehim now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with aqueer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags ofall the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars;it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality."While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by...
MALBONE: AN OLDPORT ROMANCE.MALBONE: ANOLDPORT ROMANCE.by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON."What is Nature unless there is an eventful human life passingwithin her?Many joys and many sorrows are the lights and shadows in whichshe shows most beautiful."THOREAU, MS. Diary.1- Page 2-MALBONE: AN OLDPORT ROMANCE.CHAPTER I....
I and My Chimneyby Herman MelvilleI and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in thecountry. We are, I may say, old settlers here; particularly myold chimney, which settles more and more every day.Though I always say, I AND MY CHIMNEY, as Cardinal Wolsey used tosay, "I AND MY KING," yet this egotistic way of speaking, whereinI take precedence of my chimney, is hereby borne out by thefacts; in everything, except the above phrase, my chimney takingprecedence of me.Within thirty feet of the turf-sided road, my chimneya huge,...
中间段落 叙述信函的主题。必要时可以分成数段展开议论。●叙述事情我们被告知……We are told that...我们从青木先生那儿了解到……We understand from Mr. Aoki that...我们察觉到……We observed that...We found out that...We discovered that...我们希望提醒贵方注意……We would like to call your attention to... *用于必须说出很严重的事情时。我们想利用这次的机会就……事提醒您。May we take this occasion to remind you that... *有礼貌但语气严厉。用于欠款到期不还等情况时。May we take this opportunity to remind you that...●转达希望我们希望您能……We hope that you will......
THE VISION SPLENDIDTHE VISIONSPLENDIDWilliam MacLeod Raine1- Page 2-THE VISION SPLENDIDCHAPTER 1Of all the remote streams of influence that pour both before and afterbirth into the channel of our being, what an insignificant fewand theseonly the more obviousare traceable at all. We swim in a sea ofenvironment and heredity, are tossed hither and thither by we know not...