The eyes of all Europe have been lately directed with feverish anxiety towards the East. With the early history of the present ruler of Egypt, and with his projects of military reform, our readers ar
作者:Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利9个月前Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC (21 December 1804 - 19 April 1881) was an English statesman and literary figure. He served in government for three decades, twice as Prime Minister
作者:Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利9个月前GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, DUKE OF ST. JAMES, completed his twenty-first year, an event which created almost as great a sensation among the aristocracy of England as the Norman Conquest. A minority o
作者:Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利9个月前The sun had set behind the mountains, and the rich plain of Athens was suffused with the violet glow of a Grecian eye. A light breeze rose; the olive-groves awoke from their noonday trance, and rustl
作者:Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利9个月前There is an island in the Indian Ocean, so unfortunate as not yet to have been visited either by Discovery Ships or Missionary Societies. It is a place where all those things are constantly found whi
作者:Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利9个月前THE family of Armine entered England with William the Norman. Ralph d’Armyn was standard-bearer of the Conqueror, and shared prodigally in the plunder, as appears by Doomsday Book. At the t
作者:Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利9个月前As a novelist, Benjamin Disraeli belongs to the early part of the nineteenth century. “Vivian Grey” (1826-27) and “Sybil” (1845) mark the beginning and the end
作者:Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利9个月前I would inscribe these volumes to one whose noble spirit and gentle nature ever prompt her to sympathise with the suffering; to one whose sweet voice has often encouraged, and whose taste and judgmen
作者:Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利9个月前Being at Jerusalem in the year 1831, and visiting the traditionary tombs of the Kings of Israel, my thoughts recurred to a personage whose marvellous career had, even in boyhood, attracted my attenti
作者:Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利9个月前THE thunder groaned, the wind howled, the rain fell in hissing torrents, impenetrable darkness covered the earth. A blue and forky flash darted a momentary light over the landscape. A Doric temple ro
作者:Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利9个月前THE political career of Lord George Bentinck was peculiar. He had, to use his own expression, ‘sate in eight Parliaments without having taken part in any great debate,’ when remar
作者:Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利9个月前IT WAS clearly a runaway match—never indeed was such a sublime elopement. The four horses were coal-black, with blood-red manes and tails; and they were shod with rubies. They were harnesse
作者:Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利9个月前