This long preface Sir Oliver delivered, pacing slowly on the terrace with his eyes bent upon the ground.
Preface We cannot gain experience by being brought into contact with the experiences of others, nor can we know music by reading about it.
In a preface to the first he thus explains his ideas: "The plan of a musical drama without words, requires to be explained beforehand.
Something of this kind may also be found in the verses of Lorenzo de' Medici, who, like Michael Angelo, was a poet only incidentally, and even thought it necessary to apologize in a preface for having written about love.
Lewis Theobold's Prefaceto The Works of Shakespeare (1734).
The preface to "Prince Arthur" provoked discussion; the good sense and better taste of the country were roused, and took the reformer's side of the controversy.
Yet no one dares to speak of it; or if they do, they bate their breath, and preface their remarks with maledictions.
I have used the German version of Lombroso's work, because of the translator's preface and occasional annotations.
But this outrage is improbable and doubtful, (see the sensible preface of Cousin.
Yet this story bears a strange resemblance to the Sherif al Edrissi, who presented his book (Geographia Nubiensis, see preface p.
Footnote 62: See the Astronomical Tables of Ulugh Begh, with the preface of Dr.
His preface is colored by the enthusiasm of a translator; yet these sentences delineate a characteristic, though dark, picture of human life.
Footnote 921: See the interesting extract from Kemaleddin's History of Aleppo in Wilken, prefaceto vol.
The Preface is signed by the Editor, Thomas Hull, and dated London, Dec.
Now first published, with a preface by Leigh Hunt .
The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti edited withpreface and notes by William M Rossetti .
The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti edited with preface and notes by William M.
Iconografia Dantesca the pictorial representations to Dante's Divine Comedy by Ludwig Volkmann Revised and Augmented by the Author with a preface by Charles Sarolea .
Travels into several remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several ships with a preface by Henry Craik and one hundred illustrations by Charles E.
The Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti edited with preface by William M.
When the author of the Preface to The Lover's Assistant speaks of it as an "undertaking" in translation, he means prose imitation, or paraphrase of verse.
As to any Exception which may be made to the Impurity of this Work, we shall transcribe what was written long ago in its Defence, from the Preface prefixed to Mr. Dryden's Translation of this Poem.
Footnote 333: The Voyage of Italy; Preface to the Reader, fol.
Footnote 315: The Voyage of Italy, Preface to the Reader.
In his preface he wrote:-- ‘In a polished age like the present, I am sensible that many of these reliques of antiquity will require great allowances to be made for them.
Their success in that country, the German preface assures us, and we can readily believe, has been very great.
We are not willing, openly and professedly, to assume that American citizens are broken up into classes, even if we make that assumption the preface to a plea that the superior class has duties to the inferior.
Mr. Thompson is described in the preface to the Lepadidae as "the distinguished Natural Historian of Ireland.
The Persian preface states that, after his death, Omar appeared to his mother in a dream, and repeated this quatrain to her.
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