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Meanings of proem in inglés

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Literary genre.

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Usage of proem in inglés
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In a short proem the writer speaks of himself as ninety-nine years old.
Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
2
This is the philosophical theme or proem of the whole.
Phaedrus
3
Here is the proem: Tell me about a complicated man.
The Guardian
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The poems were a grand proem to the novels.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English Hist...
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Of which this present stanza's but the proem.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12,...
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Of this also the proem is preserved.
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His proem to the Cyclus is extant.
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For example, in stanza 1 of the proem to Book I, line 1:
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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John is regarded as the writer of the proem to the fourth Gospel, also of three brief epistles.
The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
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After the proem to the Anthology of Agathias follows another epigram of his, apparently the colophon to his collection.
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11
But all the foregoing is no more than a proem to the real "Romance of the Insect-World."
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
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Of the poets named in his proem, Antiphanes, Euenus, Parmenio, and Tullius have no date determinable from internal evidence.
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The proem runs thus:
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The proem to the Garland is a work of great ingenuity, and contains in single words and phrases many exquisite criticisms.
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15
In fact, the reign of George 1. was little more than the proem to the history of England Under the House of Brunswick.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
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The first is, that it is no part of the present design, as may be seen in the proem of this little book.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 / A Magazin...
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Translations for proem
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Proem through the time