In his proem to the first book he invokes one of the furies to aid him in his task: "Thesiphone, thou help me for tendyte Thise woful vers, that wepen as I wryte!
In You Never Know Your Luck' there is a Proem which describes briefly the look of the prairie and suggests characteristics of the life of the people.
A STORY TO BE TOLD PROEM Have you ever seen it in reaping-time?
But a great deal of the "Proem to Genesis" remains which I would gladly pass over in silence, were such a course consistent with the respect due to so distinguished a champion of the "reconcilers.
But Mr. Gladstone informs us that Professor Dana and Professor Guyot are prepared to prove that the "first or cosmogonical portion of the Proem not only accords with, but teaches, the nebular hypothesis.
For us in England it was, so to speak, discovered by Professor Huxley, who many years ago gave a translation of it as a proem to a scientific periodical.
Perhaps that proem may yet be recovered as good salvage from the waters of oblivion, which sooner or later overwhelm all magazines.
But it is curious that Meleager himself nowhere uses the word; and from some phrases in the proem it is difficult to avoid the inference that he included other kinds of minor poetry as well.
The proem to the Garland is a work of great ingenuity, and contains in single words and phrases many exquisite criticisms.
After the proem to the Anthology of Agathias follows another epigram of his, apparently the colophon to his collection.
See also Richard Le Gallienne, The Decadent to his Soul, Proem to the Reader in English Poems; Joyce Kilmer, A Ballad of New Sins.
For such a purpose the Proem in the tenth Book would be badly calculated.
To begin with an introductory proem or prelude, prior to the announcement of the positive law, is (he says) the natural course of proceeding.
He will preface each law with a proem or prologue (i.
To these severe laws and penalties against heretics, Plato prefixes a Proem or Prologue of considerable length, commenting upon and refuting their doctrines.
Side-note: Proem or prefatory discourse of Plato, for these severe laws against heretics.
He either prefixes a prologue to each of his laws--or blends the law with its proem--or gives what may be called a proem without a law, that is a string of hortatory or comminatory precepts.
How many among them might be convinced by Plato's reasonings, I do not know; but the large majority of them could not fail to be offended and exasperated by the tone of his Proem or prefatory discourse.
It is supposed to have consisted at least of two books, of which we have but the proem of the first, and a small portion of the second.
In the proem to the De Genealogiis he tells us that Ostasio da Polenta induced him to translate Livy.
For though he "may now call myself free," that Proem tells us that after all we owe the Decameron itself indirectly to Fiammetta.
The idea of the work was, as he confesses in the proem suggested to him by Petrarch's De Viris Illustribus.
It is true that in the Proem to the Decameron he would have it otherwise, but who will believe him?
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