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Chapter 5 Athens
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Not feeling any enthusiasm myself about Athens, my bounden duty of course is clear, to sneer1 and laugh heartily2 at all who have. In fact, what business has a lawyer, who was in Pump Court this day three weeks, and whose common reading is law reports or the newspaper, to pretend to fall in love for the long vacation with mere3 poetry, of which I swear a great deal is very doubtful, and to get up an enthusiasm quite foreign to his nature and usual calling in life? What call have ladies to consider Greece “romantic,” they who get their notions of mythology4 from the well-known pages of “Tooke’s Pantheon”? What is the reason that blundering Yorkshire squires6, young dandies from Corfu regiments7, jolly sailors from ships in the harbour, and yellow old Indians returning from Bundelcund, should think proper to be enthusiastic about a country of which they know nothing; the mere physical beauty of which they cannot, for the most part, comprehend; and because certain characters lived in it two thousand four hundred years ago? What have these people in common with Pericles, what have these ladies in common with Aspasia (O fie)? Of the race of Englishmen who come wandering about the tomb of Socrates, do you think the majority would not have voted to hemlock8 him? Yes: for the very same superstition9 which leads men by the nose now, drove them onward10 in the days when the lowly husband of Xantippe died for daring to think simply and to speak the truth. I know of no quality more magnificent in fools than their faith: that perfect consciousness they have, that they are doing virtuous
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v.轻蔑;嘲笑;n.嘲笑,讥讽的言语 | |
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mythology
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mighty
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shaft
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abominable
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satire
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festive
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munificent
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shrieking
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arid
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tugging
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aesthetic
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edifice
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majesty
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gilt
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braying
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elegance
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