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"Hard students are commonly troubled with gowts, catarrhs, rheums, cachexia, bradypepsia, bad eyes, stone, and collick, crudities, oppilations, vertigo1, winds, consumptions, and all such diseases as come by over-much sitting: they are most part lean, dry, ill-colored . . . and all through immoderate pains and extraordinary studies. If you will not believe the truth of this, look upon great Tostatus and Thomas Aquainas' works; and tell me whether those men took pains."--BURTON'S Anatomy2 of Melancholy3, P. I, s. 2.
This was Mr. Casaubon's letter.
MY DEAR MISS BROOKE,--I have your guardian4's permission to address you on a subject than which I have none more at heart. I am not, I trust, mistaken in the recognition of some deeper correspondence than that of date in the fact that a consciousness of need in my own life had arisen contemporaneously with the possibility of my becoming acquainted with you. For in the first hour of meeting you, I had an impression of your eminent5 and perhaps exclusive fitness to supply that need (connected, I may say, with such activity of the affections as even the preoccupations of a work too special to be abdicated6 could not uninterruptedly dissimulate); and each succeeding opportunity for observation has given the impression an added depth by convincing me more emphatically of that fitness which I had preconceived, and thus evoking8 more decisively those affections to which I have but now referred. Our conversations have, I think, made sufficiently9 clear to you the tenor10 of my life and purposes: a tenor unsuited, I am aware, to the commoner order of minds. But I have discerned in you an

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labors
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solitariness
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presentiment
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consecration
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arduous
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solitude
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哭泣,啜泣( sob的过去式和过去分词 ); 哭诉,呜咽地说 | |
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sob
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neophyte
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maiden
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aesthetic
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conjecture
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accomplishment
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专心地; 恩爱地; 忠实地; 一心一意地 | |
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immediate
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intonation
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pathos
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fervently
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luncheon
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remarkable
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peculiar
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diligent
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cedar
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avalanche
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