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Prolusion   Listen
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Prolusion  n.  A trial before the principal performance; a prelude; hence, an introductory essay or exercise. "Domestic prolusions." "Her presence was in some measure a restraint on the worthy divine, whose prolusion lasted."






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"Prolusion" Quotes from Famous Books



... a brother speak? 'Tis you speak, that's your error. Song's our art: Whereas you please to speak these naked thoughts Instead of draping them in sights and sounds. —True thoughts, good thoughts, thoughts fit to treasure up! But why such long prolusion and display, Such turning and adjustment of the harp, And taking it upon your breast, at length, Only to speak dry words across its strings? Stark-naked thought is in request enough: Speak prose and hollo it till Europe hears! The six-foot Swiss tube, braced about ...
— Robert Browning: How To Know Him • William Lyon Phelps

... parts." Such young men may not be popular, but if they have the real thing in them they soon compel respect. By the undergraduates Milton was called "The Lady of Christ's." And it is plain, from his own references to this nickname in a Prolusion delivered in the college, that he owed it not only to his fair complexion, short stature and great personal beauty, but also to the purity, delicacy and refinement of his manners. He contemptuously asks the audience who had given ...
— Milton • John Bailey



Words linked to "Prolusion" :   foreword, textual matter, preface, introduction, readying, tune-up, warm-up, text, preparation



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