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It is now agreed that all the Cædmonian Paraphrases are probably by different authors.

From Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose by Various

To give distinct shape and form to these embryo ideas, often capable of acquiring very interesting form and shape, is the aim of these Paraphrases.

From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Seward, Anna

The Bloody Statute was repealed; and in every parish church, by royal order, a Bible and a copy of the Paraphrases of Erasmus were set open, for all the people to read.

From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Holt, Emily Sarah

Fiz-gigs.—In those excellent poems, Sandys's Paraphrases on Job and other Books of the Bible, there is a word of a most destructive character to the effect.

From Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850 by Various

Lefèvre prided himself on being literal, remarking, with a side glance at Erasmus's Paraphrases, that it was dangerous to try to be more elegant than Scripture.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved