The extant biographies of Smith, and the portions of the history of Virginia that relate to him, all follow his own narrative, and accept his estimate of himself, and are little more than paraphrases of his story as told by himself.
Some of Casimire’s richest imagery is found in his paraphrases of Canticles, and particularly in Ode IV, 21.
Thirty-one of his sonnets were published in Tottel's Miscellany, of which about a third are said to be translations or paraphrases of Petrarch's.
Erasmus was working hard at his Paraphrases at Louvain, when the news reached him that Colet was dead!
Erasmus to Cardinal Grymanus, prefixed to the Paraphraseson the Romans.
Containing the Paraphrases on the Four Gospels and the 'Acts.
Other dramatic writers give us very fine versions and paraphrases of nature; but Shakspeare, together with his own comments, gives us the original text, that we may judge for ourselves.
The humorous descriptions of Steele resemble loose sketches, or fragments of a comedy; those of Addison are rather comments or ingenious paraphrases on the genuine text.
In the fourteenth century appeared the device which played so large a part in the production of the Reformation hymns--that of adapting secular tunes to religious poems, and also making religious paraphrases of secular ditties.
More difficult to understand is the Puritan prohibition of all hymns except rhymed paraphrases of the psalms.
Strains such as the latter are most frequent perhaps in the paraphrases of the psalms, which the authors apply to the situation of an infant church encompassed with enemies.
Footnote A: The Targums are Chaldee paraphrases of parts of the Old Testament.
The second period of Persian literature includes all the books written in Pehlvic, and especially all the translations and paraphrases of the works of the first period.
Chaldaic is supposed to be the language of Babylonia at the time of the captivity, and the earliest remains are a part of the Books of Daniel and Ezra, and the paraphrases or free translations of the Old Testament.
The third part consists of divine poems, some of which are paraphrases on several texts out of Job, and the book of psalms.
Only paraphrases and accumulations would convey the many subtle shades contained in it; and paraphrases and accumulations are inconvenient as headings.
Bible of the largest volume in English, and the Paraphrases of Erasmus, also in English, upon the Gospels, and set up the same in some convenient place in the church.
It may be that the prose epics originated in paraphrases of early poems such as we find, for instance, in the Völsunga Saga, which is a paraphrase of older poems dealing with the story of Sigurthr.
The paraphrases were received with great applause, even by those who had little appreciation for Erasmus.
His works consist of sermons, poetical paraphrases and gospel sonnets.
But it was not without contention and controversy, strife and bitterness, that the paraphrases made their way into use in the services of public worship.
It is this 1781 collection of paraphrases that is still, after the lapse of more than a hundred years, bound in Scottish Bibles along with the metrical version of the Psalms of David.
The paraphrases have established a secure place in the psalmody of all the Presbyterian Churches in Scotland.
The permission to use this collection of Biblical paraphrases was never recalled by the Assembly, but it has also never been made a permanent act.
The present version of the psalms was that year printed for use in public worship, and no hymns nor paraphrases were appended.
The paraphrases have, on the strength of their own merits, established a secure place in the psalmody of all the Presbyterian churches in Scotland.
Saint-Saens sets great store on Liszt's original compositions, and I am sure when the empty operatic paraphrases and rhapsodies are forgotten the true Liszt will shine the brighter.
Dulness is certainly not the characteristic of the rhyming paraphrases of certain dialogues of Lucian which Charles Cotton wrote and published late in the seventeenth century under the title of 'Burlesque upon Burlesque, or the Scoffer Scoft.
Instead of that, it wanders on through paraphrases of scraps of the play, sometimes literal, then quite alien, on to the alleged motion picture punch, when the Doctor is the god from the machine.
His Mistress, or, Love Verses, and his other Anacreontics or paraphrases of Anacreon's odes, were eminently to the taste of the luxurious and immoral court of Charles II.
It would naturally be expected, then, that among the earliest literary efforts would be found translations and paraphrases of the most interesting portions of the Scripture narrative.
The paraphrases of Caedmon, the translations of Bede and Alfred, the rare manuscripts of the Latin Bible, were all that cast a faint ray upon this gloom.
Among the best specimens of Saxon prose are the translations and paraphrases of King Alfred, justly called the Great and the Truth-teller, the noblest monarch of the Saxon period.
Next in value to the Brut of Layamon, is the Ormulum, a series of metrical homilies, in part paraphrases of the gospels for the day, with verbal additions and annotations.
The rhyming chronicles of the fourteenth century in England may be mentioned as one instance of this fashion, and the rhyming paraphrases of the splendid prose of Iceland are an outcome of the same movement.
The Rimur are, so far as we can judge, somewhat wearisomeparaphrases of the prose stories, and while the metre and diction are elaborate in the extreme, the treatment of the story is often mechanical and puerile.
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