Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XXII

Although we know that Eugene had long ceased to like reading, still, several works 4 he had exempted from disgrace: the singer of the Giaour and Juan and, with him, also two or three novels in which the epoch is reflected 8 and modern man rather correctly represented with his immoral soul, selfish and dry, 12 to dreaming measurelessly given, with his embittered mind boiling in empty action.