Английский с Эдгаром По. Падение дома Ашеров / Edgar Allan Poe. The Fall of the House of Usher

The charitable, nevertheless, attributed the alteration in the conduct of the young nobleman to the natural sorrow of a son for the untimely loss of his parents – forgetting, however, his atrocious and reckless behavior during the short period immediately succeeding that bereavement. Some there were, indeed, who suggested a too haughty idea of self-consequence and dignity. Others again (among them may be mentioned the family physician) did not hesitate in speaking of morbid melancholy, and hereditary ill-health; while dark hints, of a more equivocal nature, were current among the multitude.

Indeed, the Baron’s perverse attachment to his lately-acquired charger (действительно, странная привязанность барона к его недавно обретенному скакуну) – an attachment which seemed to attain new strength (привязанность, которая, казалось, обретала новую силу: «казалась обретать»; to seem – казаться) from every fresh example of the animal’s ferocious and demon-like propensities (из каждого свежего примера буйных и демонических свойств этого животного; propensity – склонность, предрасположение) – at length became, in the eyes of all reasonable men (в конце концов стала в глазах всех разумных людей), a hideous and unnatural fervor (отвратительной и неестественной страстью).

Indeed, the Baron’s perverse attachment to his lately-acquired charger – an attachment which seemed to attain new strength from every fresh example of the animal’s ferocious and demon-like propensities – at length became, in the eyes of all reasonable men, a hideous and unnatural fervor.

In the glare of noon (в сиянии полудня) – at the dead hour of night (в мертвый = глухой час ночи) – in sickness or in health (в болезни или в здоровье) – in calm or in tempest (в покой или в бурю) – the young Metzengerstein seemed rivetted to the saddle of that colossal horse (юный Метценгерштейн казался пригвожденным к седлу этого исполинского коня), whose intractable audacities so well accorded with his own spirit (чьи непокорные дерзкие выходки так хорошо согласовывались с его собственным духом).

In the glare of noon – at the dead hour of night – in sickness or in health – in calm or in tempest – the young Metzengerstein seemed rivetted to the saddle of that colossal horse, whose intractable audacities so well accorded with his own spirit.