391 examples of paraphrases in sentences

Also, various paraphrases and elaborate exegeses of the words spoken to her; a great abundance of added commentary upon what she saw inwardly or outwardly.

p. 287):'Robertson's translations and paraphrases on other people's thoughts were so beautiful and so harmless that I never saw anybody lay claim to their own.'

Three years later he published his last work, Fables, containing poetical paraphrases of the tales of Boccaccio and Chaucer, and the miscellaneous poems of his last years.

It was reported that Simoun favored Quiroga's ambitions, that he was an advocate for the consulate, and a certain newspaper hostile to the Chinese had alluded to him in many paraphrases, veiled allusions, and suspension points, in the celebrated controversy with another sheet that was favorable to the queued folk.

My translations are sometimes rather paraphrases than interpretations, non ad verbum, but as an author, I use more liberty, and that's only taken which was to my purpose.

For "know," let the Barrister substitute "feel;" that is, we know it as we know our life; and then ask himself whether the production of such a state of mind in a sinner would or would not be of greater promise as to his reformation than the repetition of the Ten Commandments with paraphrases on the same.

Paraphrases from Scripture.

My lifted eye without a tear The lowring storm shall see; My stedfast heart shall know no fear That heart will rest on Thee! PARAPHRASES FROM SCRIPTURE.

While there he made poetical paraphrases of the most celebrated Greek poets; of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Aristophanes, which were thought efforts of extraordinary promise.

" [Footnote A: The Targums are Chaldee paraphrases of parts of the Old Testament.

[Footnote A: The Targums are Chaldee paraphrases of parts of the Old Testament.

" [Footnote A: The Targums are Chaldee paraphrases of parts of the Old Testament.

[Footnote A: The Targums are Chaldee paraphrases of parts of the Old Testament.

Dr. Watts, who gives the Christian meaning of this Psalm, translates or paraphrases thus truly: Lord in the morning thou shall hear My voice ascending high, To thee will I direct my pray'r, To thee lift up mine eye.

Those drawn from the Bible are generally very curious paraphrases of the original simple text, turned into the simplest and commonest idioms of the people;one of them may be found in the Appendix to Goethe's "Italienische Reise."

After 1200 English came more and more into written use, but mainly in translations, paraphrases, and imitations of French works.

Two of his eclogues were paraphrases from Clement Marot, a French Protestant poet, whose psalms were greatly in fashion at the court of Francis I. The pastoral machinery had been used by Vergil and by his modern imitators, not merely to portray the loves of Strephon and Chloe, or the idyllic charms of rustic life; but also as a vehicle of compliment, elegy, satire, and personal allusion of many kinds.

All paraphrases are more or less perfect depolarizations.

Hamlet was well able to "unpack his heart with words," but he will not unpack it with our paraphrases.

He preferred translations which disclaimed any particular merit in themselves, and his highest consideration was for the literal classical paraphrases. *

If the poetical ideas of Kálidása have not been expressed in language as musical as his own, I have at least done my best to avoid diluting them by unwarrantable paraphrases or additions.

Reminiscences and paraphrases of the Roman poet are scattered throughout the monk's own barbarous hexameters, as in the opening verses: Tityre tu magni recubans in margine stagni Silvestri tenuique fide pete iura peculi!

In some of his peculiarities, as in the perpetuai use of elaborate similes and in the indulgence in inflated paraphrases, he anticipates some of the worst faults of style cultivated by writers of the next century.

From Paradise Lost to In Memoriam, from The Temple to the Christian Year, the poems which the devout delight in are either Biblical paraphrases or Biblical distillations.

There is one exception to this, however, and we give it below,for, inartistic as this mould may seem, and amorphous as its ideas may be, it is the only instance of any rhymes fully translating the meaning of music, and it is as full of clinging pathos and melody as the great creation it paraphrases, and to which no words will quite respond.

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