It is highly probable that the Lais were actually written at the Court of Henry II, though the 'King' of the flowery prologue is hardly reconcilable with the stern ruler and law-maker of history.
This prologue was falsely ascribed to St. Jerome, and the passage quoted refers, not to St. Mark the Evangelist, but to a hermit of that name.
In the Prologue the Author informs us, that the Preliminaries of Peace are signed, and the War now over and he humbly hopes, as we have spared the French, we will spare his Tragedy.
Johnson's Prologue at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre.
Sir, (said Johnson) I will stand by the lines I have written on Shakspeare in my Prologue at the opening of your Theatre[83].
The number of the tales (including two in prose) is twenty-four, and great additional value is given to them by the short prologue introducing each of them.
He also furnished the beautiful prologue to Addison's Cato.
She tells us, in the prologueto her story, that she has buried five husbands, and, buxom still, is looking for the sixth.
But a passage in the prologue to the Astrolabe leaves it without doubt that Chaucer was quite familiar with lunar phenomena.
This work may have been ultimately derived from a Sanskrit copy, but from Chaucer's own words in thePrologue to the Astrolabe[3] it is clear that he made use of the Latin work.
The Prologue and most of the Fifth Act are usually considered non-Shakespearean.
Prologue of Jonson's Poetaster, a play published in that year.
You will presently discover, my dear, that youth is only an ingenious prologue to whet one's appetite for a rather dull play.
The piece begins with a prologue to the king, and then the first act opens with a long soliloquy from the ghost of Antony.
More important, however, is the fact that the tone of the prologue and epilogue is entirely different from that found in the play.
The prologue and epilogue were added at the time of publication.
This is the Prologue to thy future woe-- The Epilogue no mortal yet can know.
The curtain rises: enter Mistress Marshall, a pretty woman, and speaks a prologue which makes all the ladies hurry on their masks, and convulses the house with laughter.
It was here that he delivered the prologue to the memory of his friend Thomson; and affected the audience by shedding real tears.
In the prologue to Etherege's play of the 'Man of Mode.
Few sons of Phoebus in the courts we meet; But fifty sons of Phoebus in the Fleet," says a prologue of Sheridan's.
The prologue corresponds to Goethe's prologue in the heavens, the heavenly choirs being heard in the background of clouds, accompanied by weird trumpet-peals and flourishes in the orchestra, and closes with a finale of magnificent power.
The heavenly trumpets which rang through the prologue are again heard, and the celestial choirs are singing.
Its prologue lays stress upon the moral purpose; it was dedicated to Sir Robert Walpole; and from a couple of letters printed in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Correspondence, it is clear that it had been submitted to her perusal.
The Prologue was the work of James Ralph, afterwards Fielding's colleague in the Champion, and it thus refers to the prevailing taste.
Revised and retouched by the actor and Sheridan, it was produced at Drury Lane, as The Fathers, with a Prologue and Epilogue by Garrick.
As will be remembered, he had contributed a prologue to the Temple Beau, so that his association with Fielding must have been of some standing.
The prologue was written by Pope, and is undoubtedly a dignified and spirited composition.
For, in the prologue to the Country Wife, Wycherley described himself as "the late so baffled scribbler.
In the Book of the Duchess, the Parliament of Birds, the Prologue to the Legend, one feels that Chaucer is dealing with life, and saying what he really thinks, in spite of the conventions.
But the ideas in the Prologue to the Legend are largely the ideas of the Roman de la Rose.
For though it may appear strange at first that Chaucer should have gone back to this in so late a work as the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women, yet it does not prevent him from speaking his mind either in earlier or later poems.
The strength and constancy of his devotion to French poetry is shown in the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women.
Our first selection will naturally be the translator's prologue in the very shortened form of Berthelet.
Its popularity, almost unexampled, is explained by the scope of the work, as stated in the translator's prologue (p.
Prologue to the second recension of the Wycliffite version, 193 John Trevisa.
Prologue to the second recension of the Wycliffite Version.
Prologue and Trevisa's Dialogue and Letter to Lord Berkeley are stronger, because not arising out of quite such common topics.
The Prologue has verbal resemblances to the treatise designated Ecclesiae Regimen (the instances quoted seem to me resemblances merely of topics, and these not uncommon ones).
Finally, I wish to mention that the prologue now attached to "The Dream Play" has never before been published in any language.
Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries On New Year's Day Evening, 1790.
Scots' Prologue For Mr. Sutherland On his Benefit-Night, at the Theatre, Dumfries.
Marlowe makes the ghost of the great Florentine speak prologue to the Jew of Malta thus-- I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
The prologueto the sixth book of Matteo Villani's Chronicle may be cited as a fair specimen of the judgment passed by contemporary Italian thinkers upon their princes (Libro Sesto, cap.
This can only refer to the prologue and the first satire, and seems to point to its having been the first to be composed.
The slender volume of Persius' works is composed of six satires in hexameter verse and a prologue written in choliambi.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prologue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
