Bed-Book of
The Bed-Book of Happiness Being a colligation or assemblage of cheerful writings brought together from many quarters into this one compass for the diversion, distraction, and delight of those who lie abed,—a friend to the invalid, a companion to the sleepless, an excuse to the tired
作者：Begbie, Harold, 1871-1929
体例：题 章数：52
字数：525,760 来源：Project Gutenberg
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共 52 题- THE BED-BOOK OF HAPPINESS
- HAROLD BEGBIE
- HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
- PRINTED IN 1914 BY HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD., LONDON AND AYLESBURY.
- THE RENDERING OF THANKS
- To Mr. E.I. Carlyle, author of "The Life of William Cobbett."
- To Messrs. Constable & Co. for my raid on the "Letters of T.E. Brown."
- H.B.
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- DAUDET, ALPHONSE:
- Tartarin de Tarascon 176
- WIT ON OCCASION 444
- THE BED-BOOK OF HAPPINESS
- NINETTE NINON
- His well-known epigram on Mr. Ward, afterwards Lord Dudley--
- 1. "When the sun was jus' puttin' on his shoes" (morning),
- Silence is the unbearable repartee.--"Charles Dickens."
- CONCERNING CHARLES LAMB
- Revocare gradus, superasque evadere ad auras
- Quæque ipse miserrima vidi.--_Virgil_
- HORTENSE. ARMANDE. MONSIEUR LOYAL
- HORTENSE
- ARMANDE
- I am a word of 13 letters.
- THE CHARMING FRENCHMAN
- The cups that cheer, but not inebriate--
- A LADY A POET
- THE LADY
- When I brought it to her, she turned to Captain Brown--
- I said: "Bring him to my lecture. I'll start him for you."
- FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY
- LETTER FROM AN INDIAN GENTLEMAN TO AN ENGLISH FRIEND
- I am,
- A BABU LETTER
- SIR,
- I askt _Dick_ who he was, and he told me he was one Mr. _John Milton_.
- What is your _bête noire_?--(What is my which?)
- What are the Sweetest Words in the world?--"Not Guilty."
- I said I was.
- I then left.
- WRITTEN ON THE NIGHT OF MY MISTRESS'S GRAND ROUT
- GOOD-NIGHT, MY DEAR MADAM,
- WIT ON OCCASION
- And panting Time toils after him in vain_."
- I felt that day, for the first time, the austere sweetness of sacrifice.
- Air--"Il y avait un petit navire"
- A WAR MEDLEY
- August 12-October 7
- To the German Kaiser
- FOOTNOTES:
- End of Project Gutenberg's The Bed-Book of Happiness, by Harold Begbie