Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XXXIII

' as in a mighty age one wrote them, as was in times of yore established." Nothing but solemn odes? Oh, come, friend; what's this to the purpose? Recall what said the satirist! Does the shrewd lyrist in "As Others See It" seem more endurable to you than our glum rhymesters?- ' But in the elegy all is so null; its empty aim is pitiful; whilst the aim of the ode is lofty and noble." Here I might argue with you, but I keep still: I do not want to make two ages quarrel. i97 Eugene Onegin