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DUC DE PUYSANGE, somewhat given to women, and now and then to good-fellowship, but a man of excellent disposition. MARQUIS DE SOYECOURT, his cousin, and loves de Puysange's wife. DUCHESSE DE PUYSANGE, a precise, but amiable and patient, woman. ANTOINE, LACKEYS to de Puysange, Etc. Paris, mostly within and about the Hotel de Puysange. PROEM: Necessitated by a Change of Scene
LADY ALLONBY, a woman of fashion, and widow to Lord Stephen Allonby. MISS ALLONBY, daughter to Lord Stephen by a former marriage, of a considerable fortune in her own hands. FOOTMEN to Lady Allonby; and in the Proem FRANCIS ORTS, commonly know as FRANCIS VANBINGHAM, a dissolute play-actor. A drawing-room In Lady Allonby's villa at Tunbridge Wells. PROEM: To be Filed for Reference Hereafter
MISS ALLONBY, an heiress, loves Captain Audaine. LOTTRUM, maid to Miss Allonby. BENYON, MINCHIN, and OTHER SERVANTS to Ormskirk. Tunbridge Wells, shifting from Ormskirk's lodgings at the Mitre to Vanringham's apartments in the Three Gudgeons. PROEM. To Explain Why the Heroine of This Comedy Must Wear Her Best
It is supposed to have consisted at least of two books, of which we have but the proem of the first, and a small portion of the second. In his beautiful compositions, De Senectute and De Amicitiâ, Cato the censor and Lælius are respectively introduced, delivering their sentiments on those subjects.
Thus when he began, "Why, Sir, as to the good or evil of card-playing;" Garrick would make this arch comment on his proem; "Now he is considering which side he shall take." It may he urged that his hearers were aware of this propensity which he had To make the worse appear The better argument, and were therefore in no danger of being misled by it.
Of this proem we shall only say that it is written in the quaint style of that prefixed by Gay to his Pastorals, being, as Johnson terms it, "such imitation as he could obtain of obsolete language, and by consequence in a style that was never written nor spoken in any age or place."
LADY MARIAN HELEIGH, betrothed to Ormskirk, a young, beautiful girl of a mild and tender disposition. The east terrace of Halvergate House. PROEM: Apologia pro Auctore It occurs to me that we here assume intimacy with a man of unusual achievement, and therefore tread upon quaggy premises.
Neither is it again needful to discuss that first stanza in the present explanation, which was reasoned out as the Proem in the Literal exposition; since, from the first argument thereof, it is easy enough to make out the meaning in this the second one. We may proceed, then, to the second part, which begins the treatise, and to that place where I say, "The Sun sees not in travel round the Earth."
And he remembered that a godly Bow-head matron had been carried out of the Tolbooth church in a swoon, beyond the reach of brandy and burnt feathers, merely on hearing these fearful words, "It is enacted by the Lords spiritual and temporal," pronounced from a Scottish pulpit, in the proem to the Porteous Proclamation.
It was, as he informs us in its proem, drawn up from memory on his voyage from Italy to Greece, soon after Cæsar's murder, and in compliance with the wishes of Trebatius, who had some time before urged him to undertake the translation. Cicero seems to have intended his De Oratore, De claris Oratoribus, and Orator, to form one complete system.
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