1In a short proem the writer speaks of himself as ninety-nine years old.
2This is the philosophical theme or proem of the whole.
3Here is the proem: Tell me about a complicated man.
4The poems were a grand proem to the novels.
5Of which this present stanza's but the proem.
6Of this also the proem is preserved.
7His proem to the Cyclus is extant.
8For example, in stanza 1 of the proem to Book I, line 1:
9John is regarded as the writer of the proem to the fourth Gospel, also of three brief epistles.
10After the proem to the Anthology of Agathias follows another epigram of his, apparently the colophon to his collection.
11But all the foregoing is no more than a proem to the real "Romance of the Insect-World."
12Of the poets named in his proem, Antiphanes, Euenus, Parmenio, and Tullius have no date determinable from internal evidence.
14The proem to the Garland is a work of great ingenuity, and contains in single words and phrases many exquisite criticisms.
15In fact, the reign of George 1. was little more than the proem to the history of England Under the House of Brunswick.
16The first is, that it is no part of the present design, as may be seen in the proem of this little book.