metaphrase

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Hear Dryden prosing away upon paraphrase, and metaphrase, and imitation, in his very best style.

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"Translation, therefore," says Dryden, "is not so loose as paraphrase, nor so close as metaphrase."

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His general theory may be stated as an aim at something between the literalness of metaphrase and the looseness of paraphase.

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But most men, little recking what a small portion of the original they were reading, satisfied themselves with the Anglo French epitome and metaphrase.

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The way I have taken is not so strait as metaphrase, nor so loose as paraphrase; some things, too, I have omitted, and sometimes have added of my own.

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