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In a short proem the writer speaks of himself as ninety-nine years old.
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This is the philosophical theme or proem of the whole.
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Here is the proem: Tell me about a complicated man.
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The poems were a grand proem to the novels.
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Of which this present stanza's but the proem.
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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:
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John is regarded as the writer of the proem to the fourth Gospel, also of three brief epistles.
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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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But all the foregoing is no more than a proem to the real "Romance of the Insect-World."
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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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In fact, the reign of George 1. was little more than the proem to the history of England Under the House of Brunswick.
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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.