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To the foregoing letter from captain clutterbuck.
Dear captain,
Do not admire, that, notwithstanding the distance and ceremony of your address, I return an answer in the terms of familiarity. The truth is, your origin and native country are better known to me than even to yourself. You derive1 your respectable parentage, if I am not greatly mistaken, from a land which has afforded much pleasure, as well as profit, to those who have traded to it successfully — I mean that part of the terra incognita which is called the province of Utopia. Its productions, though censured2 by many (and some who use tea and tobacco without scruple) as idle and unsubstantial luxuries, have nevertheless, like many other luxuries, a general acceptation, and are secretly enjoyed even by those who express the greatest scorn and dislike of them in public. The dram-drinker is often the first to be shocked at the smell of spirits — it is not unusual to hear old maiden3 ladies declaim against scandal — the private book-cases of some grave-seeming men would not brook4 decent eyes — and many, I say not of the wise and learned, but of those most anxious to seem such, when the spring-lock of their library is drawn5, their velvet6 cap pulled over their ears, their feet insinuated7 into their turkey slippers8, are to be found, were their retreats suddenly intruded9 upon, busily engaged with the last new novel.
I have said, the truly wise and learned disdain10 these shifts, and will open the said novel as
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v.取得;导出;引申;来自;源自;出自 | |
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muse
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abridger
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behold
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lodger
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