Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XXIII

Shall I present a faithful picture of the secluded cabinet, where fashions' model pupil 4 is dressed, undressed, and dressed again? Whatever, for the lavish whim, London the trinkleter deals in and o'er the Baltic waves to us 8 ships in exchange for timber and for tallow; whatever hungry taste in Paris, choosing a useful trade, invents for pastimes, 12 for luxury, for modish mollitude; all this adorned the cabinet of a philosopher at eighteen years of age.