[136]: The Zwinger is originally the narrow interval between the town-wall and the town itself.—Tr.
[137]: The sensuous images of the ancient Greek philosophers.—Tr.
[138]: Flamin.—Tr.
[139]: D'Israeli, in his "Curiosities of Literature" (Art. Literary Follies), ascribes this to one Gregorio Leti, who, he says, presented a discourse to the Academy of the Humorists at Rome, throughout which he had purposely omitted the letter R, and he entitled it, "The exiled R."—Tr.
[140]: The R disbanded.—Tr.
[141]: A name given by the Romans to the slave who carried the children's school-books after them.—Tr.
[142]: "Decency adds to the pleasures of indecency; virtue is the salt of love; but don't take too much of it.—I love in woman bursts of anger, of grief, of joy, of fear; there is always in their boiling blood something which is favorable to men.—It is where finesse falls short, that enthusiasm is needed.—Women are rarely astonished at being thought weak; it is at the contrary that they are somewhat astonished.—Love always pardons love, rarely reason."—Tr.
[143]: Such was the title Stevens gave his satirical college-lectures on pasteboard heads, which half London ran after.
[144]: Lacon says: "As to time without an end and space without a limit, these are two things that finite beings cannot clearly comprehend. But ... there are two things much more incomprehensible, ... time that has an end and space that has a limit. For whatever limits these two things must be itself unlimited, and I am at a loss to conceive where it can exist except in space and time."—Tr.
[145]: Peristaltic.—Tr.