Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XXV

One can be an efficient man- and mind the beauty of one's nails: why vainly argue with the age? 4 Custom is despot among men. My Eugene, a second [Chadaev], being afraid of jealous censures, was in his dress a pedant 8 and what we've called a fop. Three hours, at least, he spent in front of glasses, and from his dressing room came forth 12 akin to giddy Venus ? when, having donned a masculine attire, the goddess drives to a masqued ball. ioy Eugene Onegin