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chapter 9 Pope
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I infer, from the fact of this preference that I had already begun to read Pope, and that I must have read the “Deserted Village” of Goldsmith. I fancy, also, that I must by this time have read the Odyssey1, for the “Battle of the Frogs and Mice” was in the second volume, and it took me so much that I paid it the tribute of a bald imitation in a mock-heroic epic2 of a cat fight, studied from the cat fights in our back yard, with the wonted invocation to the Muse3, and the machinery4 of partisan5 gods and goddesses. It was in some hundreds of verses, which I did my best to balance as Pope did, with a caesura falling in the middle of the line, and a neat antithesis6 at the end.
The story of the Odyssey charmed me, of course, and I had moments of being intimate friends with Ulysses, but I was passing out of that phase, and was coming to read more with a sense of the author, and less with a sense of his characters as real persons; that is, I was growing more literary, and less human. I fell in love with Pope, whose life I read with an ardor7 of sympathy which I am afraid he hardly merited. I was of his side in all his quarrels, as far as I understood them, and if I did not understand them I was of his side anyway. When I found that he was a Catholic I was almost ready to abjure8 the Protestant religion for his sake; but I perceived that this was not necessary when I came to know that most of his friends were Protestants. If the truth must be told, I did not like his best things at first, but long remained chiefly attached to his rubbishing pastorals, which I was perpetually imitating, with a whole apparatus9 of swains and shepherdesses, purling
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odyssey
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| n.长途冒险旅行;一连串的冒险 | |
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muse
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machinery
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partisan
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apparatus
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brooks
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unnatural
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halfway
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rhetoric
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thoroughly
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perfectly
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schooling
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| n.教育;正规学校教育 | |
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immediate
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decoratively
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mere
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crooked
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frail
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tormented
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| 饱受折磨的 | |
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odds
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snob
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liar
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abasement
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humbly
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| adv. 恭顺地,谦卑地 | |
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shunned
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requisite
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tiresome
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fatigues
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malice
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glamour
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virtues
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| 美德( virtue的名词复数 ); 德行; 优点; 长处 | |
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distinguished
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idols
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| 偶像( idol的名词复数 ); 受崇拜的人或物; 受到热爱和崇拜的人或物; 神像 | |
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frailties
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innocence
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lamented
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offender
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ethical
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decency
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foul
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filthy
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subdued
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lewd
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perpetuates
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defile
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corrupt
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loath
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disorder
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perplexed
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hurled
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amiable
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fray
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vigor
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spoke
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contrition
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regularity
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