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There are innumerable exquisite passages scattered through the work, which make us ready to believe in the figurative comparison of the prefacer, when he tells us that "the coral-grains of the 'Opened Pomegranate' will become in Provence the chaplet of lovers."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various

(A poem grateful to the greedy swain) &c. If there be not a tolerable line in all these six, the prefacer gave me no occasion to write better.

Dedication Vergil 1909

The prefacer began with Ille ego, which he was constrain’d to patch up in the fourth line with at nunc, to make the sense cohere; and if both those words are not notorious botches, I am much deceiv’d, tho’ the French translator thinks otherwise.

Dedication Vergil 1909

This being the case, it is hard to see why the clever prefacer wishes to uphold the State after poverty shall have ceased to exist.

Anarchism and Other Essays Emma Goldman 1904

* It is not the purpose of the prefacer to show wherein Emancipation failed to solve the Negro Question -- save so far as any other party or political expedient could have done -- suffice it to point out the indisputable fact that the Negro Question confronts us today and particularly the people of the South with mein grave and portentous.

The Story of a Slave. A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times--Hitherto Unwritten--From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress No Author 1894

Well, to escape from the toils of an interesting story (for I'm no longer a story-teller but a prefacer) I will say that three nights later Sir Hugh took the Marchioness in to dinner; he sat in his predecessor's chair, knowing nothing of him, thereby startling his hosts, who, however, soon recovered their presence of mind.

Muslin 1892

I remember right, used to be less careful of his literary appearance than his prefacer, neglecting to examine his sentences, and to scan them as often as one might expect from an admirer, not to say disciple, of

Muslin 1892

There is no great risk in establishing this observation as an axiom in literature; for should a prefacer loiter, it is never difficult to get rid of lame persons, by escaping from them; and the reader may make a preface as concise as he chooses.

Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807

This ingenious invention of the prefacer of Aristophanes at length was detected by Menage.

Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807

In the first place, I observe that a prefacer is generally a most accomplished liar.

Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807