IV. Use the above mentioned expressions in dialogues of your own. V. Translate the following passages from English into Ukrainian:

V. Translate the following passages from English into Ukrainian:

“It was better not to …would be good”.

VI. Comment on the following:

1. Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to.

2. Married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one’s worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one’s personality.

3. All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime.

4. Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often that is one of the most important secrets of life.

5. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

6. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

7. There was purification in punishment.

VII. Translate the following sentences from Ukrainian into English:

1. Вчора вона зустріла мене в маленькому садку. Яблуневий цвіт падав їй на волосся, і вона сміялася. Сьогодні на свтанку ми мали разом виїхати звідти. Але раптом я вирішив залишити її такою ж чистою, як уперше побачив.

2. Злочин належиться виключно нижчим шарам суспільства. І я ані на крихту не осуджую їх за це. Мені здається, для них злочин – те саме, що для нас мистецтво: просто засіб збудження відчуття.

3. Він мовчки зітхнув, а потім пройшовся по кімнаті і погладив голову рідкісного яванського папуги. Птах був великий, з сірими крильми і рожевим чубком та хвостом.

4. Ці слова вразили мене своїм драматизмом. Мрячна днина, неоковирна постать християнина в дощовику, півколо хворобливих блідих облич і ця розкішна думка, що шпурнув у повітря пронизливий, істерикуватий голос.

5. Молодь випереджує нас, тому тепер я слухаю з повагою лишень набагато молодших за мене. Що ж до старих людей, я їм завжди суперечу.

6. Життя наше не підвладне нашій волі чи замірам. Ваше мистецтво – це було ваше життя. Ви поклали самого себе на музику. Дні ваші – це ваші сонети.

7. Незабаром ви, як щирий неофіт, почнете застерігати людей перед усіма гріхами, що вам уже оприкріли. Але ви занадто гарний для цього. Та й ні до чого це. Які ми є, такі ми є, і такі й будемо.

8. Ця врода його – ось що знівечило йому життя, – його врода і молодість, що він собі благав. Якби не вони, його життя було б вільне від наруги. А врода виявилася лише машкарою, молодість – лише глумом. Молодість же знищила його!

9. Крик болю й обурення вирвався в нього. Ніякої зміни він не бачив – хіба тільки в очах зявилося щось підступне та рот скривило лицемірним усміхом. Червона волога на його руці, либонь, ще пояскравішала.

10. Коли ввійшли у кімнату, на стіні їм впав в око чудовий портрет їхнього господаря – достоту такий, яким вони останній раз його бачили. А на підлозі лежав якись мрець у вечірньому костюмі. Постерігши персні у нього на пальцях, слуги упізнали, хто це.

VIII. Make up a plan of the chapters and retell it according to this plan.

Commentaries

Perdita,... Florizel — Пердита, Флоризель, персона­жи пьесы Шекспира Winter's Tale (1610-1611).

Burgundy — бургундское столовое вино.

Waterburywatch — дешевые часы; производились в американском городе Уотербери.

Velasquez — Диего Веласкес (1599—1660), вели­чайший живописец Испании XVII в.

Like the painting of a sorrow, A face without a heart — слова короля, обращенные к Лаерту, звучат полностью так:

Laertes, was your father dear to you?

Or are you like the painting of a sorrow

A face without a heart?

(«Гамлет», акт IV, сц. 7).

what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose... his own soul? — цитата из Библии (Евангелие от Матфея, 16, 26).

did Chopin write it at Majorca — В 1838—1839 гг. Шопен и Жорж Санд жили на острове Майорка, крупнейшем из Балеарских островов в Средизем­ном море.

Marsyas — Марсий, фригийский фавн, искусно иг­равший на гобое; согласно легенде, вступил в состязание с Аполлоном, который, одержав победу, наказал Марсия — велел привязать его к дереву и содрать с него живьем кожу.

Browning — Роберт Браунинг (1812—1889), ан­глийский поэт; в диалоге The Critic as Artist Уайльд замечает, что Браунинг велик не как поэт, а как писатель «с непревзойденным чувством драматиче­ской ситуации», который «умел ставить проблемы».

lilas blanc (фр.) — белая сирень.

revivalist — «возрожденец», член секты, распро­странившейся во 2-й половине XIX в. в Англии и Америке и проповедующей возрождение религии.

Men become old, but they never become good. Lady Windermere's Fan.

Mrs. Allonby: I delight in men over seventy, they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. A Woman of No Importance.

I sometimes think that God in creating man, somewhat overestimated His ability. In Conversation.

How many men there are in modern life who would like to see their past burning to white ashes before them? An Ideal Husband.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past. An Ideal Husband.

A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. Lady Windermere's Fan.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. In Conversation.

Men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. A Woman of No Importance.

Lady Windermere:...I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her awhile heap of things that he doesn't mean. Lady Windermere's Fan.

A bad man is the sort of man who admires innocence, and a bad woman is the sort of woman a man never gets tired of. A Woman of No Importance.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything. A Woman of No Importance.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. Lady Windermere's Fan.

Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women. A Woman of No Importance.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. The Sphinx Without a Secret.

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing. Lady Windermere's Fan.

I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it! An Ideal Husband.

I don't think there is a woman in the world who would not be a little flattered if one made love to her. It is that which makes women so irresistibly adorable. A Woman of No Importance.

My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth, I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important. A Woman of No Importance.

She looks like a woman with a past. Most pretty women do. An Ideal Husband.

Women give to men the very gold of their lives. But they invariably want it back in small change. Picture of Dorian Gray.

I am sick of women who love me. Women who hate me are much more interesting. The Picture of Dorian Gray.

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to. Lady Windermere's Fan.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately. Letter from Paris May 1900

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner of later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. The Decay of Lying.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. The Soul of Man Under Socialism.

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against on behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true. A Woman of No Importance.

Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it. Vera, of The Nihilists.

The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden. It ends with Revelation. A Woman of No Importance.

Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. An Ideal Husband.

You must not find symbols in everything you see. It makes life impossible. Salome.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. The Duchess of Padua.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime.

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman--or the want of it in the man. A Woman of No Importance.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. In Conversation.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young.

A kiss may ruin a human life. A Woman of No Importance.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot. The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect--simply a confession of failures. The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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