And just after the war I spent two days with them in Chicago. Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven-a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at ...
The scene is laid in the house of Cephalus at the Piraeus; and the whole dialogue is narrated by Socrates the day after it actually took place to Timaeus, Hermocrates, Critias, and a nameless person, who are introduced in the Timaeus. BOOK I I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with...
poem, or book that is long and contains a lot of action, usually dealing with a historical subject (通常指描写历史题材的)长篇叙事性电影(或书籍);史诗It's one of those old Hollywood epics with a cast of thousands. 这是老牌的好莱坞史诗电影之一,演员阵容达到数千人。eclipse...
because its ends are simple; assertions of the moral elevation and loveliness of Germany; of the insuperable excellences of German Kultur, the Kaiser, and Crown Prince, and so forth; abuse of the "treacherous" English who allied themselves with the "degenerate" French and the "barbaric" Russia...
from his garden, and the cars going up and down his drive. One night I did hear a material car there, and saw its lights stop at his front steps.But I didn't investigate.Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn't know that the party...
IT ENDS WITH US by Colleen Hoover A battered wife raised in a violent home attempts to halt the cycle of abuse. 2 THE WOMEN by Kristin Hannah In 1965, a nursing student follows her brother to serve during the Vietna...
"Well, it's up to you to say what you will do," said he; "for my part I have a score to settle with these monkey-folk, and if it ends by wiping them off the face of the earth I don't see that the earth need fret about it. I'm goin' with our little red pals ...
The Merchant of Venice,Much Ado About Nothing,As You Like It,Twelfth Night,Merry Wives of Windsor,All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure;history plays HenryⅣ,HenryⅤ,Richard Ⅲ,Julius Caesar,Antony and Cleopatra;tragicomedies Romeo and Juliet,Timon of Athens,Cymbeline,The Winter'...
I believe I thought of it as simply another ruse, Mr Stevens, to annoy you. It was a shock to come out here and find myself married. For a long time, I was very unhappy, very unhappy indeed. But then year after year went by, there was the war, Catherine grew up, and one day...
of their serious and matronly sister.Her photograph stood before the pierglass.She held an open book on her knees and was pointing out something in it to Constantine who, dressed in a man-o-war suit, lay at her feet.It was she who had chosen the name of her sons for she was very ...