"Proem" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... these high transcendental aspects of the matter, study to glean (whether from the Paper-bags or the Printed Volume) what little seems logical and practical, and cunningly arrange it into such degree of coherence as it will assume. By way of proem, take ...
— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle
... informed) will allow Foreigners to have had no share in it. He ascribes its origin to Linus, and says expressly, Aph' Hellenon erxe philosophia hes kai auto to onoma ten Barbaron apestrapte prosegorian. Laer. in Proem.] ...
— An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients • John Ogilvie
... time we should proceed with our good poem,— For I maintain that it is really good, Not only in the body but the proem, However little both are understood Just now,—but by and by the Truth will show 'em Herself in her sublimest attitude: And till she doth, I fain must be content To share her ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron |
