prelection

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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

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 Cassioderus.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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

So, when Uncle Jaw had finished his prelection, the deacon, after some meditation, came out with, "Railly, they say that your son is going to have the valedictory in college."

From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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