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He is as the bee which does not make its final burglarious headlong plunge into the calyx until after a protracted course of circuitous buzzing and much prefatory waste of time: and this with all the insect's credit for industry. So over-perverse a traveller, so ultra-dilatory a bee as the author of Modern Painters, must shorten his journey, must leave much honey unfilched.
James Russell Lowell, in a prefatory note to "Tom Brown at Oxford," these words: "The great tasks of the world are only laid on the strongest shoulders.
IN submitting to the English-speaking public this second volume of M. Zola's trilogy "Lourdes, Rome, Paris," I have no prefatory remarks to offer on behalf of the author, whose views on Rome, its past, present, and future, will be found fully expounded in the following pages.
Subsequently, by the clemency of the Emperor Nerva, he was removed to Sicily, where he now is a Professor of Rhetoric and takes his revenge upon Fortune in his prefatory remarks. You see how careful I am to obey your wishes, as I not only give you the news of the town, but news from abroad, and minutely trace a story from its very beginning.
Innumerable instances of the same kind might be quoted, all tending to show how strongly among the peasantry of the south this superstition is entertained. However, I shall not detain the reader further by any prefatory remarks, but shall proceed to lay before him the following: Extract from the MS. Papers of the late Rev. Francis Purcell, of Drumcoolagh.
Before that breakfast at the club my life had been merely prefatory; a sum of dilute emotions. At Harvard I had taken my degree and won my "H" on the gridiron. Since then I had gone through my days just missing every goal. There had been little even of innocuous flirtation and nothing of grand passion. I had tried to paint, and my masters discovered promise which came to nothing.
The Count's ability to drink three or four glasses of liquor with this prefatory repast astonished Alban not a little which the young Russian observed and remarked upon. "I am glad that I was born in the East," he said lightly, "you English have no digestions. When you have them, your climate ruins them. Here in Russia we eat and drink what we please that is our compensation.
With these brief prefatory remarks, I shall forthwith enter into the discussion of the genesis and meaning of the tics. I may say at once that this is not merely a theoretical and purely academic proposition which has no practical bearings in the way of prognosis and treatment.
I became as the caveman, who by brute force would win his mate. I obeyed a primeval impulse. Without a word of warning, without excuse, without prefatory remark of any nature whatsoever, I acted: I kissed her. To be exact, I kissed at her. For, in this moment fraught with such consequences to all concerned, she averted her head at yet a greater angle.
And so, in the mean time, master, my service to you." Matter prefatory in praise of biography.
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