Further, I endeavour to make my diction literary, my definitions brief and precise, my wording, as far as possible, simple and eloquent. Every minute I have to pull myself up and remember that I have only an hour and forty minutes at my disposal. In short, one has one's work cut out. At one and the same minute one has to play the part of savant and teacher and orator, and it's a bad thing if the orator gets the upper hand of the savant or of the teacher in one, or _vice versa_.英文原著 · 《The Wife and Other Stories》
"I will trouble you with a few commissions," said the savant. "A good opportunity to order the volume that is wanting in my copy of the Abbe Gaume's work," said the youthful lawyer. "You take such sudden notions, Pepe; you are so full of caprices," murmured Dona Perfecta, smiling, with her eyes fixed on the door of the dining-room. "But I forgot to tell you that Caballuco is waiting to speak to you."英文原著 · 《Dona Perecta》
But Cappara declaring that he belonged entirely to his lady, the memory of whom he could not banish entirely, entered the Church, became a cardinal and a great savant, and used to say in his old age that he had existed upon the remembrance of the joys tasted in those poor hours of anguish; in which he was, at the same time, both very well and very badly treated by his lady. There are authors saying afterwards he succeeded better with his old sweetheart, whose cheek healed; but I cannot believe this, because he was a man of heart, who had a high opinion of the holy joys of love.英文原著 · 《Droll Stories-2》
A Jeanroy in "Romania", xxxiii. 420 note, says: "Quant au nom de Thessala, il doit venir de Lucain, tres lu dans les ecoles au XIIe siecle." See also G. Paris in "Journal des Savants", 1902, p. 441 note. Thessala is mentioned in the "Roman de la Violetta", v. 514, in company with Brangien of the Tristan legend. (30) Medea, the wife of Jason, is the great sorceress of classic legend. (31) This personage was regarded in the Middle Ages as an Emperor of Rome.英文原著 · 《Four Arthurian Romances》
1910), p. xxxix f., and Myrrha Borodine, "La femme et l'amour au XXIe Seicle d'apres les poemes de Chretien de Troyes" (Paris, 1909). Paris has ably defended another interpretation of the references in "Cliges" to the Tristan legend in "Journal des Savants", 1902, p. 442 f. (38) This curious moral teaching appears to be a perversion of three passages form St. Paul's Epistles: I Cor. 9, I Cor. 32, Eph.英文原著 · 《Four Arthurian Romances》
xxxii. f., and G. Paris in "Romania", ix. 436-443, and in "Journal des Savants", 1902, p. 645 f. For an additional reference, add "Ipomedon", 9103. (42) For an imitation of the following scene, see Hans Herzog in "Germania", xxxi. (43) "Porz d'Espaingne" refers to the passes in the Pyrenees which formed the entrance-ways to Spain.英文原著 · 《Four Arthurian Romances》