Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

XXXVIII

A malady, the cause of which 'tis high time were discovered, similar to the English "spleen"- 4 in short, the Russian "chondria" – possessed him by degrees. To shoot himself, thank God, he did not care to try, 8 but toward life became quite cold. He like Childe Harold, gloomy, languid, appeared in drawing rooms 5 neither the gossip of the monde nor boston, 12 neither a winsome glance nor an immodest sigh, nothing touched him $ he noticed nothing.