From the absence of a prefatory explanation when Long Odds was published in book form in 1869, it may be assumed that Clarke was satisfied with the quality of the contributed work.
Without this prefatory sign-post, the reader could never have suspected such a purpose.
See also Autobiography of Sir Walter Besant (1902), with a prefatory note by S.
The 1846 edition of La Chartreuse de Parme contains a prefatory notice by R.
I have heard of a dramatic writer who used to say, he would rather write a play than a prologue; in like manner, I think, I can with less pains write one of the books of this history than the prefatory chapter to each of them.
In his prefatory note to the Ballad of Arngrim's Sons, published in Nordiske Oldskrifter, vols.
Selected, with a Prefatory Note, by Percival Chubb.
Edited by John Underhill, withPrefatory Note by Walter Besant.
Prefatory Note to the Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1889, dated "Dec.
Ryerson to enter the lists in defence of Sir Charles, and the prefatory note to his rejoinder was written on the 27th May.
The Prefatory Notice and Address will explain to you the circumstances under which it was written.
Commendatory Poems The following spirited preface and a prefatory poem were printed only in the Poems and Songs of 1674; they are worth preserving here.
He speaks in Greek, and that the purest Attic; his prefatory remarks are polished, neat and agreeable, and occasionally stately and sparkling.
Subsequently, by the clemency of the Emperor Nerva, he was removed to Sicily, where he now is a Professor of Rhetoric and takes his revenge upon Fortune in his prefatory remarks.
Some of the passages of this “Prefatory Discourse” will be found in the Introduction.
Tables of classification are to be found in the prefatory part of the new Breviary, under the headings Tres Tabellae.
Mr. Wordsworth in his recent collection has, I find, degraded this prefatory disquisition to the end of his second volume, to be read or not at the reader's choice.
The following passage from Davenant's prefatoryletter to Hobbes well expresses this truth.
Compare theprefatory epistle to the Gemma animae, ibid.
Evolution Old and New, a reprint of the second edition (1882) with prefatory note by R.
In that Prefatory Note a Dialogue on Species by Butler and an autograph letter from Charles Darwin are mentioned.
All the footnotes are mine and so are all those prefatory notes which are printed in italics and the explanatory remarks in square brackets which occur occasionally in the text.
I remember seeing this song appended to an old edition of the Shipwreck, with a prefatoryremark stating that G.
The Souldier's Pocket Bible; an exact reprint of the original edition of 1643, with a prefatory note by George Livermore.
A French panegyrical poem, presented to Queen Elizabeth, in 1586, by Georges de la Motthe, a French refugee; with a prefatory address in prose.
He remarks, that he had entered into this discussion as introductory to a book concerning the republic, since it seemed proper, as prefatory to such a work, to combat the sentiments of those who deny that a philosopher should be a statesman.
Gruterus printed one at Wittenberg in 1621, with a prefatory invective against Pareus, and with the Euphemiae amicorum in Plautum Gruteri.
His character has received more justice from the prefatory Memoir and Notes of De Brosses, his French translator, and from the researches of Wieland in Germany.
And now, therefore, note this well, the gist of all these long prefatory talks.
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