Audiobook Dictation: “I know not why, but infinite…”

I know not why, but infinite compunctions embitter in mature life the remembrances of budding joy and cover every beloved name.

我不知為何，但到了成熟之年，無盡的悔恨使萌芽之喜的回憶變得苦澀，並籠罩著每一個心愛的名字。

Every thing is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth.

萬物從理智的角度、或作為真理來看，都是美的。

But all is sour, if seen as experience.

但若作為經驗來看，一切都是酸澀的。

Details are melancholy; the plan is seemly and noble.

細節是憂鬱的；整體的藍圖卻端莊而高貴。

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

與思想同在、與理想同在的，是不朽的歡欣，是喜悅的玫瑰。

Round it all the Muses sing.

眾繆斯圍繞著它歌唱。

But grief cleaves to names, and persons, and the partial interests of to-day and yesterday.

而悲傷卻依附於名字、人物，以及今日與昨日的局部利害。

The strong bent of nature is seen in the proportion which this topic of personal relations usurps in the conversation of society.

自然的強烈傾向，體現在人際關係這一話題在社交談話中所佔的比重上。

What books in the circulating libraries circulate?

流通圖書館裡流通的是哪些書？

How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature!

當故事講得帶有一絲真實與自然時，我們對這些激情小說是何等熱血沸騰！