prolusion

• In the same prolusion, Strada quotes the "blustering line, afterwards censured by Dryden; but erroneously reads Super imposito moles gemmata colosso 4. —  The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06
• But why such long prolusion and display, —  An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
• In the same prolusion, Strada quotes the "blustering" line, afterwards censured by Dryden; but erroneously reads, —  The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06
• War cards; a prolusion. —  U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1964 January - June
• This year, Crousaz, a Swiss professor of note, having attacked (we think most justly) the "Essay on Man" as a mere Pagan prolusion--a thin philosophical smile cast on the Gordian knot of the mystery of the universe, instead of a sword cutting, or trying to cut, it in sunder--Warburton, a man of much talent and learning, but of more astuteness and anxiety to exalt himself, came forward to the rescue, and, with a mixture of casuistical cunning and real ingenuity, tried, as some one has it, "to make Pope a Christian," although, even in Warburton's hands, like the dying Donald Bane in "Waverley," he "makes but a queer Christian after all;" and his system, essentially Pantheistic, contrives to ignore the grand Scripture principles of a Fall, of a Divine Redeemer, of a Future World, and the glorious light or darkness which these and other Christian doctrines cast upon the Mystery of Man. —  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

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