Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

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Petri de vanite il avait encore plus de cette espece d'orgueil qui fait avouer avec la ???? indifference les bonnes comme les mauvaises actions, suite d'un sentiment de superiorite, peut-etre imaginaire. Tire d'une lettre particuliere [PREFATORY PIECE] Not thinking to amuse the haughty world, having grown fond of friendship's heed,

I wish I could present you with a gage 4 that would be worthier of yoube worthier of a fine soul full of a holy dream, of live and limpid poetry, 8 of high thoughts and simplicity. But so be it. With partial hand take this collection of pied chapters: half droll, half sad, 12 plain-folk, ideal, the careless fruit of my amusements, insomnias, light inspirations, unripe and withered years, 16 the intellect's cold observations, and the heart's sorrowful remarks.

To live it hurries and to feel it hastes. Prince Vyazemski

i "My uncle has most honest principles: when he was taken gravely ill, he forced one to respect him 4 and nothing better could invent. To others his example is a lesson 5 but, good God, what a bore to sit by a sick person day and night, not stirring 8 a step away! What base perfidiousness to entertain one half-alive, adjust for him his pillows, 12 sadly serve him his medicine, sigh-and think inwardly when will the devil take you?"

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