metaphrases

Updated: June 22, 2025

But when you read it in the spirit with which such playful selections and specious combinations rather than strict metaphrases of nature should be taken, or when you saw Bannister play it, it neither did, nor does wound the moral sense at all.

Charles Lamb - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 : Elia and The Last Essays of Elia

But when you read it in the spirit with which such playful selections and specious combinations rather than strict metaphrases of nature should be taken, or when you saw Bannister play it, it neither did, nor does wound the moral sense at all.

Charles Lamb - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 : Elia and The Last Essays of Elia