TAILIEUCHUNG - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –The Black Tulip ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 6

The Black Tulip ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 6 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | The Black Tulip ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 6 6. The Hatred of a Tulip-fancier From that moment Boxtel s interest in tulips was no longer a stimulus to his exertions but a deadening anxiety. Henceforth all his thoughts ran only upon the injury which his neighbour would cause him and thus his favourite occupation was changed into a constant source of misery to him. Van Baerle as may easily be imagined had no sooner begun to apply his natural ingenuity to his new fancy than he succeeded in growing the finest tulips. Indeed he knew better than any one else at Haarlem or Leyden -- the two towns which boast the best soil and the most congenial climate -- how to vary the colours to modify the shape and to produce new species. He belonged to that natural humorous school who took for their motto in the seventeenth century the aphorism uttered by one of their number in 1653 -- To despise flowers is to offend God. From that premise the school of tulip-fanciers the most exclusive of all schools worked out the following syllogism in the same year -- To despise flowers is to offend God. The more beautiful the flower is the more does one offend God in despising it. The tulip is the most beautiful of all flowers. Therefore he who despises the tulip offends God beyond measure. By reasoning of this kind it can be seen that the four or five thousand tulipgrowers of Holland France and Portugal leaving out those of Ceylon and China and the Indies might if so disposed put the whole world under the ban and condemn as schismatics and heretics and deserving of death the several hundred millions of mankind whose hopes of salvation were not centred upon the tulip. We cannot doubt that in such a cause Boxtel though he was Van Baerle s deadly foe would have marched under the same banner with him. Mynheer van Baerle and his tulips therefore were in the mouth of everybody so much so that Boxtel s name disappeared for ever from the list of the notable tulip-growers in Holland and those of Dort were

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