prolusions

A hint of these domestic prolusions has been given to the reader in the foregoing extract from Miss Ethel

The Newcomes 2006

Our young men are led [a] to academical prolusions in the school of vain professors, who call themselves rhetoricians; a race of impostors, who made their first appearance at Rome, not long before the days of Cicero.

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

What had the Guardian of the Lizards to do with clubs of tall or of little men, with nests of ants, or with Strada’s prolusions?

Life of Addison, 1672-1719 1909

The case against all the prolusions of ostensible Democracy is indeed so strong that it is impossible to consider the present wide establishment of

Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906

His addresses were mainly of the memorial and anniversary kind, and were rather lectures and Ph.B. K. prolusions than speeches.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

The ease and fun of these bright prolusions, without impudence or coarseness, the poetic touch and refinement, were as unmistakable as the brisk pungency of the gibe.

Literary and Social Essays George William Curtis 1858

The truth is, that in such a time as this, in the dawn of an age of faith, whose future magnificence we may surely prognosticate from the slowness and complexity of its self-developing process, spiritual 'Werterism,' among other strange prolusions, must have its place.

The Saint's Tragedy Charles Kingsley 1847

My Lord Derby was at that moment, and for many months afterwards, assisting Valentine Dale in his classical prolusions on the sands of

History of the United Netherlands, 1588b John Lothrop Motley 1845

My Lord Derby was at that moment, and for many months afterwards, assisting Valentine Dale in his classical prolusions on the sands of

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

My Lord Derby was at that moment, and for many months afterwards, assisting Valentine Dale in his classical prolusions on the sands of

History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89 — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845