Pride and Prejudice — Page 9
And I am not so certain that I should myself use the word "narrow" in connection with her.
E non sono così sicuro di dover io stesso usare la parola «limitata» in riferimento a lei.
If her world is a microcosm, the cosmic quality of it is at least as eminent as the littleness.
Se il suo mondo è un microcosmo, la qualità cosmica di esso è almeno altrettanto eminente quanto la piccolezza.
She does not touch what she did not feel herself called to paint; I am not so sure that she could not have painted what she did not feel herself called to touch.
Non tocca ciò che non si sentiva chiamata a dipingere; non sono così sicuro che non avrebbe potuto dipingere ciò che non si sentiva chiamata a toccare.
It is at least remarkable that in two very short periods of writing--one of about three years, and another of not much more than five--she executed six capital works, and has not left a single failure.
È quanto meno notevole che in due periodi di scrittura molto brevi — uno di circa tre anni, e un altro di non molto più di cinque — abbia realizzato sei opere capitali, e non abbia lasciato un solo fallimento.
It is possible that the romantic paste in her composition was defective: we must always remember that hardly anybody born in her decade--that of the eighteenth-century seventies--independently exhibited the full romantic quality.
È possibile che l'impasto romantico nella sua composizione fosse difettoso: dobbiamo sempre ricordare che quasi nessuno nato nel suo decennio — quello degli anni settanta del Settecento — abbia manifestato in modo autonomo la piena qualità romantica.
Even Scott required hill and mountain and ballad, even Coleridge metaphysics and German to enable them to chip the classical shell.
Persino Scott aveva bisogno di colline e montagne e ballate, persino Coleridge di metafisica e di tedesco per riuscire a scalfire il guscio classico.
Miss Austen was an English girl, brought up in a country retirement, at the time when ladies went back into the house if there was a white frost which might pierce their kid shoes, when a sudden cold was the subject of the gravest fears, when their studies, their ways, their conduct were subject to all those fantastic limits and restrictions against which Mary Wollstonecraft protested with better general sense than particular taste or judgment.
Miss Austen era una ragazza inglese, cresciuta nel ritiro della campagna, in un'epoca in cui le signore rientravano in casa se c'era una brina che avrebbe potuto trapassare le loro scarpe di capretto, in cui un improvviso raffreddore era oggetto dei timori più gravi, in cui i loro studi, i loro modi, la loro condotta erano soggetti a tutti quei fantastici limiti e restrizioni contro cui Mary Wollstonecraft protestò con maggiore buon senso generale che particolare gusto o giudizio.
Vocabulary
- non
- not; negation particle in Italian
- sono
- I am; present tense first person singular of essere
- così
- thus; in this way; so
- sicuro
- sure; certain; confident about something
- di
- of; preposition indicating possession or relationship
- dover
- must; to have to; obligation or necessity
- io
- I; first person singular pronoun
- stesso
- same; self; identical or very person
- usare
- to use; to employ or utilize something
- la
- the; feminine singular definite article
- parola
- word; unit of language with meaning
- limitata
- limited; restricted or confined in scope
- in
- in; preposition indicating location or condition
- riferimento
- reference; relation or connection to something
- lei
- she; her; third person feminine pronoun
- Se
- if; conditional conjunction introducing possibility
- il
- the; masculine singular definite article
- suo
- his; her; its; possessive adjective third person
- mondo
- world; the earth or realm of existence
- un
- a; an; masculine singular indefinite article
- qualità
- quality; characteristic or attribute of something
- esso
- it; neuter third person singular pronoun
- almeno
- at least; minimum quantity or degree
- altrettanto
- as much; the same amount or degree
- quanto
- how much; as much as; comparative degree
- Non
- not; negation particle capitalized for emphasis
- tocca
- touches; third person singular of toccare
- ciò
- that; this; demonstrative pronoun neuter
- che
- that; which; relative pronoun introducing clauses
- si
- oneself; reflexive pronoun for passive constructions
- sentiva
- felt; past tense third person of sentire
- chiamata
- called; feminine past participle of chiamare
- dipingere
- to paint; to create visual art with pigment
- avrebbe
- would have; conditional past of avere
- potuto
- able; past participle of potere
- meno
- less; lesser quantity or degree
- notevole
- notable; worthy of attention or remarkable
- due
- two; number between one and three
- periodi
- periods; divisions of time or sections
- scrittura
- writing; act of writing or written work
- molto
- very; much; high degree of intensity
- brevi
- brief; short in duration or length
- uno
- one; number or masculine singular indefinite article
- circa
- about; approximately; roughly a certain amount
- tre
- three; number between two and four
- anni
- years; plural of anno, twelve month period
- altro
- other; another; different from one already mentioned
- più
- more; greater quantity or comparative degree
- cinque
- five; number between four and six
- abbia
- has; subjunctive present of avere third person
- realizzato
- realized; accomplished or completed masculine past participle
- sei
- six; number between five and seven
- opere
- works; plural of opera, artistic or literary creations
- capitali
- capital; major or most important in significance
- lasciato
- left; abandoned or past participle of lasciare
- solo
- only; sole or alone; single in number
- fallimento
- failure; lack of success or bankruptcy
- possibile
- possible; capable of happening or being done
- romantico
- romantic; relating to romance or Romanticism
- nella
- in the; contraction of in and la
- sua
- her; his; its; feminine possessive adjective
- composizione
- composition; arrangement of parts into whole
- fosse
- were; subjunctive past of essere third person
- dobbiamo
- we must; present tense first person plural of dovere
- sempre
- always; at all times; constantly or forever
- ricordare
- to remember; to recall or recollect something
- quasi
- almost; nearly; approximately or just about
- nessuno
- no one; nobody; not a single person
- nato
- born; past participle of nascere
- nel
- in the; contraction of in and il
- quello
- that; those; distal demonstrative adjective or pronoun
- degli
- of the; plural contraction of di and gli
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