prelection

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Was it reasonable to have assembled six, ten, or a dozen persons for the purpose of hearing a prelection?

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

Listen awhile to a learned prelection On Marcus Aurelius Cassiodorus.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Lord Carlisle commenced his able and eloquent prelection by deploring the fact, that Pope had sunk in estimation.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Gilfillan, George

And now, as we have the whole morning before us Let us go in, if you make no objection, And listen awhile to a learned prelection On Marcus Aurelius Cassiodorus.

From The Golden Legend by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

At Ware he commenced his prelection, In the dullest of clerical drones; And when next I regained recollection We were rambling o'er Trumpington stones.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron