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Eugene Onegin, Vol. II
10 / : Both nouns belong to the vaguely evocative type of romantic locution so frequent in and so difficult to render by exact English words. ranges from "mollitude" {Fr. } , i.e., soft luxuriance, "dulcitude," through various shades of amorous pensiveness, , and sensual tenderness to outright voluptuousness {Fr. }. The translator has to be careful here not to overdo in English what Pushkin is on the point of doing in the Russian when he makes his maiden burn with all the French languors of flesh and fancy.
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