Which preposition to use with paraphrase
The guarantee is as old as Magna Charta; for "due process of law" is but a paraphrase of "the law of the land," without which no freeman could be deprived of his liberties or possessions.
A poet, in his paraphrase on Horace, thus illustrates this custom: "Nay, nay, my boy, 'tis not for me This studious pomp of Eastern luxury; Give me no various garlands fine With linden twine; Nor seek where latest lingering blows The solitary rose.
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.
4. Paraphrase in prose the Seven Ages of Man (Appendix 4).
It is in the same essay that Leigh Hunt mentions that he once saw Lamb kiss an old folioChapman's Homerthe work he paraphrased for children under the title The Adventures of Ulysses.
" In the foregoing accounts of the voyage of Sighelm, from the first notice in the Saxon Chronicle, through the additions of Malmsbury, and the amplified paraphrase by Harris, we have an instance of the manner in which ingenious men permit themselves to blend their own imaginations with original record, superadding utterly groundless circumstances, and fancied conceptions, to the plain historical facts.
"Spare the rod, and spoil the child," might easily be paraphrased into "Spare the basting, and spoil the meat."
D'Ablancourt has made me say a great many things, some good, some bad, which I never thought of, and, upon the whole, what he has done is more a paraphrase than a translation."
Paraphrase with Compression.
Junius attributed the entire Paraphrase to Caedmon, on the authority of the above quotations from Bede.
He replied at once that there were twocruelty, and bilking; which, if the word is not academic, I may paraphrase as cheating the helpless, swindling a child out of its pennies, or leaving a house by the back door in order to avoid paying your cabman his lawful fare.
