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.

我不知为何，但到了成熟之年，无尽的悔恨使萌芽之喜的回忆变得苦涩，并笼罩着每一个心爱的名字。

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

万物从理智的角度、或作为真理来看，都是美的。

But all is sour, if seen as experience.

但若作为经验来看，一切都是酸涩的。

Details are melancholy; the plan is seemly and noble.

细节是忧郁的；整体的蓝图却端庄而高贵。

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

与思想同在、与理想同在的，是不朽的欢欣，是喜悦的玫瑰。

Round it all the Muses sing.

众缪斯围绕着它歌唱。

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

而悲伤却依附于名字、人物，以及今日与昨日的局部利害。

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

自然的强烈倾向，体现在人际关系这一话题在社交谈话中所占的比重上。

What books in the circulating libraries circulate?

流通图书馆里流通的是哪些书？

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

当故事讲得带有一丝真实与自然时，我们对这些激情小说是何等热血沸腾！