My hostesses entertained me afterward with excerpts from their table conversations of the last two weeks. (I wonder the butler hasn't given notice; he looked like a respectable man.) If nothing more comes of it, at least Punch has furnished them with funny stories for the rest of their lives. One of them is even thinking of writing a book. "At least," says she, wiping hysterical tears from her eyes, "we have lived!"英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
It was, say all Gazetteers and idle eye-witnesses, a highly splendid spectacle. By much the most effulgent exhibition Friedrich ever made of himself in the Expensive-Mummery department: and I could give in extreme detail the phenomena of it; but, in mercy to poor readers, will not. Fancy the assiduous hammering and sawing on the Schloss-Platz, amid crowds of gay loungers, giving cheerful note of preparation, in those latter days of August, 1750. And, on WEDNESDAY NIGHT, 25th AUGUST, look and see,--for the due moments only, and vaguely enough (as in the following Excerpt):--英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 16》
Truly the situation is so violent, it cannot last. And in effect a wild thought, not quite new, ripens to a resolution in the Crown-Prince under such pressures: In reference to which, as we grope and guess, here is a Billet to Mamma, which Wilhelmina has preserved. Wilhelmina omits all trace of date, as usual; but Dubourgay, in the above Excerpt, probably supplies that defect:--英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 6》
The Spiritual Ebb and Flow exhibited in English Poetry from Chaucer to Tennyson and Browning. {This section contains Browning's `Popularity' and many excerpts.}英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
208-209. See p. 62 of this volume. {In this etext, Part II, Section 3 in the Introduction. It is shortly before an excerpt from `Christmas Eve'.}英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
the proofs shift: see pp. 37 and 38. {In etext, shortly before two excerpts from `A Death in the Desert', Chapter II, Section 1 of Introduction.} Objective proofs, in spiritual matters, need reconstruction, again and again; and whatever may be their character, they are inadequate, and must finally, in the Christian life, be superseded by subjective proofs -- by man's winning his way to the kingdom of eternal truth within himself -- the kingdom of the "what Is".英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
I've got excerpts, analysis, three thousand words ready for editting.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Nice juicy excerpt, profile on Thomas Yates, his literary comeback.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Which of the following political actions violated the principle of unalienable rights of liberty that evolved from the above excerpt of the Declaration of Independence?美剧 · 《Shameless》