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

In the mean time my own disease – for I have been told that I should call it by no other appellation – my own disease, then, grew rapidly upon me, and assumed finally a monomaniac character of a novel and extraordinary form – hourly and momently gaining vigor – and at length obtaining over me the most incomprehensible ascendancy. This monomania, if I must so term it, consisted in a morbid irritability of those properties of the mind in metaphysical science termed the attentive.

It is more than probable that I am not understood (более чем вероятно, что меня не понимают: «я не понят»); but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader (но я боюсь, по правде говоря, что никоим образом не возможно дать уму неспециалиста: «просто общего читателя»), an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest (адекватное представление о той нервной интенсивности интереса) with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) (с которой, в моем случае, силы мышления, говоря общим языком: «чтобы не говорить технически») busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe (занимали себя и погружались в созерцание даже самых обычных предметов вселенной).

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.