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n. - Exercising in preparation for strenuous activity; A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.

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  • In the same prolusion, Strada quotes the "blustering" line, afterwards censured by Dryden; but erroneously reads,
  • The "State of Innocence," as it could not be designed for the stage, seems to have been originally intended as a mere poetical prolusion; for
  • It was, after all, only the easiest part of the task that he had set before him, only a prolusion to the tragedy that he would have to play to a finish.
  • This was a possibility which had never entered the lawyer's long list of calamities, and he was at some loss to conceive what the old lady could possibly mean by so sentimental...
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