But Blake's are the flower of the set, you will, I am sure, agree; though some of Montgomery's at the end are pretty, but the Dream awkwardly paraphrased from B. With the exception of an Epilogue for a Private Theatrical, I have written nothing new for near six months.

" "A jackass may kick at a king," she paraphrased casually.

The author should know that these words have meant a thousand things to a thousand people, and that if more ancient sects had paraphrased them as cheerfully as he, he would never have had the text upon which he founds his theory.

"God sent art, and the devil sent critics," said Müller, dismally paraphrasing a popular proverb.

Then eloquently paraphrasing it and prophesying its prosperity, his conversation with a beauty all its own reassured me.

I should be sorry to say that the word would not bear the sense assigned to it by Dr. Westcott, who paraphrases it felicitously (from his point of view) by our word 'Gospel' [Endnote 155:1].

What she would have said of him, if he had been the first to go, we can only guess; but he has left a portrait of her, as she lived and worked in his household, which, mutilated though it is, may be inadequately paraphrased as follows:

It has been ingeniously paraphrased by Dr. Beattie: "When men out of the earth of old, A dumb and beastly vermin crawled, For acorns first and holes of shelter, They tooth and nail and helter-skelter, Fought fist to fist; then with a club, Each learned his brother brute to drub; Till more experienced grown, these cattle Forged fit accoutrements for battle.

The subject is his family motto,Dum vivimus, vivamus; which, in its primary signification, is, to be sure, not very suitable to a Christian divine; but he paraphrased it thus: "Live, while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day.

"He's a better man than I am," he paraphrased half wistfully.