Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

Chapter Eight
XVI

– of that word I am very fond, but am unable to translate it; in our midst for the time being it is new 4 and hardly bound to be in favor; it might do nicely in an epigram… But to our lady let me turn.)

Winsome with carefree charm, 8 she at a table sat with brilliant Nina Voronskoy, that Cleopatra of the Neva; and, surely, you would have agreed 12 that Nina with her marble beauty could not-though dazzlingeclipse her neighbor.