"Proem" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the prologue or proem of the book called Caton, which book hath been translated into English by Master Benet Burgh, late Archdeacon of Colchester, and high canon of St. Stephen's at Westminster, which ful craftily hath made it in ballad royal for the erudition of my lord Bousher, ...
— Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse • Various
... should not have presumed to ask it. I will not trespass on your time by any proem. I gathered from a remark of Messer Domenico Mazzinghi that you might be glad to make use of the next special courier who is sent to France with despatches from the Ten. I must entreat you to pardon me if I have been too officious; but inasmuch as Messer Domenico is at this moment away ...
— Romola • George Eliot
... informed) will allow Foreigners to have had no share in it. He ascribes its origin to Linus, and says expressly, Aph' Hellenon erxe philosophia hes kai auto to onoma ten Barbaron apestrapte prosegorian. Laer. in Proem.] ...
— An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients • John Ogilvie
... the provision for grafting the Beatitudes upon the Evening Prayer, the author of the Wisconsin Report will have many sympathizers, the present writer among them; but in his fear that in the introduction of the Proem to the Song of the Three Children, as a possible respond to the First Lesson,[53] there lurks a covert design to dethrone the Te Deum, he is likely to find few to ...
— A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer • William Reed Huntington
... of Miriam's degraded father to be crime, and proceeds to inquire how Miriam and Donatello may work out their purification. So that if the first part of the romance is the Fall of Man repeated, the second part is the proem to a new Paradise Regained; and the seclusion of the sculptor and the Faun, and their journey together to Perugia, seasoned with Kenyon's noble and pure-hearted advice, compose a sort of seven-times-refined Pilgrim's Progress. Apt culmination of a genius whose ...
— A Study Of Hawthorne • George Parsons Lathrop |
