英语美文背诵文选100篇

英语美文背诵文选100篇之杨若古兰创作

1. The First Snow

The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night

long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs on the living, on the graves of

the dead! All white save the river, that marked its course be a winding black line

across the landscape; and the leafless tress, that against the leaden sky now revealed

more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies of their branches. What silence, too,

came with the snow, and what seclusion! Every sound was muffled, every noise

changed to something soft and musical. No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling

wheels! Only the chiming of sleigh-bell, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of

children. (118 words)

From Kavanagh

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2. The Humming-bird

Of all animals being this is the most elegant in form and the most brilliant in colors.

The stones and metals polished by our arts are not comparable to this jewel of

Nature. She has placed it least in size of the order of birds. "maxime Miranda in

minimis." Her masterpiece is this little humming-bird, and upon it she has heaped all

the gifts which the other birds may only share. Lightness, rapidity, nimbleness, grace,

and rich apparel all belong to this little favorite. The emerald, the ruby, and the topaz

gleam upon its dress. It never soils them with the dust of earth, and in its aerial life

scarcely touches the turf an instant. Always in the air, flying from flower to flower, it

has their freshness as well as their brightness. It lives upon their nectar, and dwells

only in the climates where they perennially bloom. (149 words)

From Natural History

By George Louise Buffon

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3. Pines

The pine, placed nearly always among scenes disordered and desolate, bring into

them all possible elements of order and precision. Lowland trees may lean to this

side and that, though it is but a meadow breeze that bends them or a bank of cowlips

from which their trunks lean aslope. But let storm and avalanche do their worst, and

let the pine find only a ledge of vertical precipice to cling to, it will nevertheless grow

straight. Thrust a rod from its last shoot down the stem; it shall point to the center

of the earth as long as the tree lives. It may be well also for lowland branches to reach hither and thither for what they need, and to take all kinds of irregular shape

and extension. But the pine is trained to need nothing and endure everything. It is

resolvedly whole, self-contained, desiring nothing but rightness, content with

restricted completion. Tall or short, it will be straight.

(160 words)

From Modern Painters

By John Ruskin

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4. Reading Good Books

Devote some of your leisure, I repeat, to cultivating a love of reading good books.

Fortunate indeed are those who contrive to make themselves genuine book-lovers.

For book lovers have some noteworthy advantages over other people. They need

never know lonely hours so long as they have books around them, and the better the

books the more delightful the company. From good books, moreover, they draw

much besides entertainment. They gain mental food such as few companions can

supply. Even while resting from their labors they are, through the books they read,

equipping themselves to perform those labors more efficiently. This albeit they may

not be deliberately reading to improve their mind. All unconsciously the ideas they

derive from the printed paged are stored up, to be worked over by the imagination

for future profit.

(135 words)

From Self-Development

By Henry Addington Bruce

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5. On Etiquette

Etiquette to society is what apparel is to the individual. Without apparel men would

go in shameful nudity which would surely lead to the corruption of morals; and

without etiquette society would be in a pitiable state and the necessary intercourse

between its members would be interfered with by needless offences and troubles. If

society were a train, the etiquette would be the rails along which only the train could

rumble forth; if society were a state coach, the etiquette would be the wheels and axis

on which only the coach could roll forward. The lack of proprieties would make the

most intimate friends turns to be the most decided enemies and the friendly or allied

countries declare war against each other. We can find many examples in the history

of mankind. Therefore I advise you to stand on ceremony before anyone else and to

take pains not to do anything against etiquette lest you give offences or make