His attitude toward madrigals was somewhat enigmatic: whereas in the preface to his collection of Canticum canticorum ( Song of Songs ) motets ( 1584 ) he renounced the setting of profane texts, only two years later he was back in print with Book II of his secular madrigals ( some of these being among the finest compositions in the medium ).

Some years later, he wrote a forcible preface to a translation of the New Testament issued at his command by his private secretary, Hieronymus Emser, as an offset to Luther's version.

Several later texts support Hesiod's account, for instance Bibliotheke., Hyginus, and the preface to Fabulae.

that my last hour was come --" He was later thanked for his devotion by the poet Percy B. Shelley in the preface to his elegy, Adonais, which was written for Keats in 1821.

Unlike later collections, such as the Kokin Wakashū, there is no preface.

Six years later, in October 1769, Lavater sent Mendelssohn his German translation of Charles Bonnet's essay on Christian Evidences, with a preface where he publicly challenged Mendelssohn to refute Bonnet or if he could not then to " do what wisdom, the love of truth and honesty must bid him, what a Socrates would have done if he had read the book and found it unanswerable ".

This edition is criticized in the imperial preface to the later translation, which says that it contains extra words and sentences mixed in that detract from the original meaning.

in Quantity for the Price of Seven " Richardson later made it up to the public with " deferred Restorations " of the fourth edition of the novel being printed in larger print with eight volumes and a preface that reads: " It is proper to observe with regard to the present Edition that it has been thought fit to restore many Passages, and several Letters which were omitted in the former merely for shortening-sake.

She learns later — in Book 83, December 29, 1878 — from her father ( but does not apparently accept his statement, as she ignores it here in her preface ) that she was a full-term baby, suggesting that she was conceived before her parents had married and that all the mystification about her date of birth was intended to cover up that embarrassment.

In a later interview Siegel complained, " The film was nearly ruined by those in charge at Allied Artists who added a preface and ending that I don't like.

Two months later, in January 1595, Barnfield published his second volume, Cynthia, with certain Sonnets, and the legend of Cassandra, and this time signed the preface, which was dedicated, in terms which imply close personal relations, to William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.

There too he probably met Jacques Peletier du Mans, who had published a translation of the Ars Poetica of Horace, with a preface in which much of the program advocated later by La Pléiade is to be found in outline.

Five years later, in his preface to Bungakuron ( The Criticism of Literature ), he wrote about the period:

These were massively successful, earning him a total of £ in terms, and led to the publication of An Analysis of the Laws of England in 1756, which repeatedly sold out and was used to preface his later works.

The lecture was tremendously popular, being described as a " sensible, spirited and manly exhortation to the study of the law "; the initial print run sold out, necessitating the publication of another 1, 000 copies, and it was used to preface later versions of the Analysis and the first volume of the Commentaries.

Then, after a performance where Kean went out of his way to botch the opening night of " Switzerland " by historical novelist Jane Porter in February 1819, for whom Kean had had a personal dislike, Bucke pulled the play out of contempt for Kean's conduct .. After much cajoling to still perform the play by the theatre staff, Mr. Bucke then later had it republished with a preface concerning the incident, including excerpts from correspondences between the involved parties, which was later challenged in two books, The Assailant Assailed and A Defense of Edmund Kean, Esq.

An edition published in Philadelphia in 1901 by David McKay ( later a publisher of comic books ) contains what is listed as a preface to the second edition of the work stating, " Concerning any genuineness of any portion of the work, the Editor has not offered an opinion, nor is it necessary that he should.

In the preface to the 1882 Russian Edition of The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels explicitly raised the issues Trotsky would later develop:

The preface to the 1609 quarto indicates that he played Blue John, a clown in the vein of Tarlton and Kempe ; he also seems to have doubled in the role of Tutch, a witty fool of the type he later played in London.

This offended at least two contemporary writers, who were probably Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare, causing Chettle to deny the charge in the preface to his Kind Heart's Dream, published later that year:

The historian Meir Shahar notes Yue's mention in the second preface of the Sinew-Changing Classic ( 1624 ) is what " spurred a wave of allusions to the patriotic hero in later military literature ".

As Cowley later wrote in her preface to the printed edition of Albina, hers and More ’ s plays do indeed have “ wonderful resemblances .” Fatal Falsehood ’ s opening on 6 May 1779, was followed by charges ( perhaps written by Thomas Cowley ) in the press that More stole her ideas from Cowley.

It was en route to Chile that, in the baths of Zonda, he wrote the graffiti " On ne tue point les idées ," an incident that would later serve as the preface to his book Facundo.

As the preface to the 2nd edition ( 1976 ) notes, the first edition ( 1955 ) appears to have received relatively little attention from the literary establishment because of its then-unfashionable Marxist viewpoint.

* The Making of the English Working Class London: Victor Gollancz ( 1963 ); 2nd edition with new postscript, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, third edition with new preface 1980.

In the preface to the first edition of his book, Butler specified:

Many dismissed this as a joke ; but, in his preface to the second edition, Butler wrote:

The first edition of the book was published, without Kant or Fichte's knowledge, without Fichte's name and signed preface ; it was thus mistakenly thought to be a new work by Kant himself.

Wells also wrote the preface for the first edition of W. N. P. Barbellion's diaries, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, published in 1919.

In his preface to the 1941 edition of The War in the Air, Wells had stated that his epitaph should be: " I told you so.

In 1822 this volume appeared in a second edition ( really a new work, for, as Grimm himself says in the preface, it cost him little reflection to mow down the first crop to the ground ).

As Grimm in the preface to his first edition expressly mentioned this essay of Rask, there is every probability that it inspired his own investigations.

However others, pointing to Marx's encounter with late 19th-century Russian populism and Marx and Engels's preface to the second Russian edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( 1882 ), have argued that Marx evinced a growing conviction in his late writings that revolution could in fact emerge first in Russia.

Donald Keene explained in a preface to the Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkō Kai edition of the Man ' yōshū:

But whereas Newton vehemently denied gravity was an inherent power of matter, his collaborator Roger Cotes made gravity also an inherent power of matter, as set out in his famous preface to the Principia's 1713 second edition which he edited, and contra Newton himself.

In the preface to the fourth edition he stated his belief that proportional representation would '... end the evils of corruption, violent discontent and restricted power of selection or voter choice '.

Moreover, he noted in the preface to his third edition a point that was to become a feature of Tasmanian politics:

The preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray was added, along with other amendments, after the edition published in Lippincott's was criticised.

The second edition, published in 1800, had only Wordsworth listed as the author, and included a preface to the poems, which was augmented significantly in the 1802 edition.

Much of the biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus ' Enneads.

His first publications were an edition of Terence ( 1516 ) and his Greek grammar ( 1518 ), but he had written previously the preface to the Epistolae clarorum virorum of Reuchlin ( 1514 ).

In the preface to the first edition of Scènes de la Vie privée, he writes: " The author firmly believes that details alone will henceforth determine the merit of works ….

The new edition added a second preface, a chapter about his life up to 1846, a chapter concerning the post-war period ( ending with his 1884 retirement from the army ), several appendices, portraits, improved maps, and an index ( 1886 edition:

A second edition of Pope's Shakespeare appeared in 1728, but aside from making some minor revisions to the preface, it seems that Pope had little to do with it.