The first experiments relative to the transfusion of the blood, appear to have been made, and that with great propriety, on the lower animals.

The manner of a poet can never be faithfully reproduced in a translation, but all that is really valuable, really affecting, in an epic poem will survive transfusion into the frank and natural idiom of another tongue.

Since the age of Chaucer, at least, that is for more than 400 years, our language has been increased by continual transfusions from the French.