prelection

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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

His reception of my recitation, or prelection, was rather singular.

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

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

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