metaphrase

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

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

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

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

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.