Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

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With toilette in the latest taste having engaged your curious glance,

I might before the learned world 4 describe here his attire; this would, no doubt, be daring; however, 'tis my business to describe5 but "dress coat," "waistcoat," "pantaloons" – 8 in Russian all these words are not; in fact, I see (my guilt I lay before you) that my poor idiom as it is might be diversified much less 12 with words of foreign stock, though I did erstwhile dip into the Academic Dictionary.