Me cuesta trabajo imaginar que veremos muy pronto instrumentos capaces de traducir las subtilezas del modo de pensar propias de un país: en este caso se debería, no sólo traducir el lenguaje sino de establecer pasarelas de sensibilidad.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

For example, here is the death of a national hero as portrayed in The Song of Roland , an old French epic, which the Normans first put into polished verse: Li quens Rollans se jut desuz un pin, Envers Espaigne en ad turnet son vis, De plusurs choscs a remembrer le prist….
— from Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Ergo a consiliis regi fidissimus unus Deligitur sermone potens Veldvicius heros, Quicum partitus curarum ingentia dudum Pondera tractandas rerum committit habenas; Atque illum ad celebrem Byzanti destinat urbem, Præstanti eloquio et placido sermone
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

“Li quens Rollanz se jut desuz un pin; Envers Espaigne en ad turnet sun vis.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

It would be an error to suppose that it was from any want of courage that the Dutch-Belgian troops could not be depended upon; proof enough exists that the people of those countries are capable of the most heroic and persevering exertions when engaged in a cause that they care to support; but under the circumstances in which they were placed on this occasion, they were without confidence, were not acting in a cause which they cordially supported, and showed that it was not one in which they wished to oppose themselves seriously to French troops.”
— from The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History Third Edition by John Codman Ropes

Adonc Adramain leva une cappe par dessus une pillier, et en telle sort, qu'il sembla a ceux qui furent presens, que parmi la place couroit, une riviere fort grande et terrible.
— from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 3 (of 3) Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Walter Scott