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In the " Prologue " to The Heptameron, Parlamente, having obtained her husband Hircan's permission to do so, makes bold to ask Lady Oisille to devise an appropriate means by which the company of stranded guests, who are waiting for the building of a bridge to be completed and who are beset by a series of natural calamities and criminal actions that keeps them virtual prisoners in an abbey, may amuse themselves.
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In the Prose Edda, Sif is mentioned once in the Prologue, in chapter 31 of Gylfaginning, and in Skáldskaparmál as a guest at Ægir's feast, the subject of a jötunn's desire, as having her hair shorn by Loki, and in various kennings.
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The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre published a book in 2006 titled, Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922, in which he contrasted Stein's living out of her own personal philosophy with Martin Heidegger, whose actions during the Nazi era according to MacIntyre suggested a " bifurcation of personality.
He also goes so far as to describe two sets of clothing for her in his General Prologue.
Helen Cooper also notes that behaviour in marriage is a theme that emerges in the Wife of Bath ’ s Prologue, and although she does look at the character of Alisoun and notes how she did not really exhibit the behavior expected of her, she also describes Jankyn.
In 1999, Cher sampled a synth sound from " Prologue " and " Epilogue " at the beginning of her number 1 hit single " Believe ".
* Prologue The difficulties of writing history, reasons to write this work, mourning for her husband
The General Prologue names the prioress as Madame Eglantine, and describes her impeccable table manners and soft-hearted ways.
Prologue: A man wandering in a blizzard finds a woman in white, and advises her to seek shelter.
She earned her JD degree from Yale in 1965, the first African American to do so ; her dissertation was titled, Roots of the Racial Crisis: Prologue to Policy.
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Since known tales do not exist for all of the pilgrims, and since none reach the projected total of four tales each outlined in the General Prologue, the host's remarks give a further indication of the way in which Chaucer's ultimate scheme for the cycle either was not realised or has not survived.
The genre soon became very popular ; the intricately-plotted romantic comedies of Shakespeare and John Lyly that had been in vogue on the public and private stages until this point were largely superseded by plays which were set in a recognizable contemporary London, and which dealt with, in Ben Jonson's words, " deeds and language such as men do use " ( Prologue to Every Man in his Humour ).
The Prologue of Tuck Everlasting, set in the first week of August, says: " These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after.
:" I protest that I do not intend to assert or determine anything that has not been manifestly determined by Sacred Scripture or by the authority of the Church ... Wherefore I submit all I have said or shall say to the correction of Holy Mother Church and of all learned men ..." ( Second Prologue to Postillae ).
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While there he wrote a content analysis of newspaper horoscopes ( now collected in The Stars Down to Earth ), the essays “ Television as Ideology ” and “ Prologue to Television ”; even so, he was pleased when, at the end of ten months, he was enjoined to return as co-director of the Institute.
Designated by color rather than issue numbers ( namely Yellow, Blue, Black, and Red ) plus two book-end issues, Deathmate Prologue and Deathmate Epilogue, as well as Preview issues collected with comic products, the four main issues were written so they could be read in any order.
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For Lent, cultural critique is central to the cycle, as his “ Prologue ” makes clear.
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* The Lord Cardinal's Players stage The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom – Inclination, Prologue, Wit, Lady Vanity – played by a boy, and Luggins – a player cast as Good Counsel who arrives too late to act in the play
* Pavane Del Rey Online excerpt, Prologue and part of The Lady Margaret.
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The Prologue, in which Nennius introduces his purpose and means for writing the British History, first appears in a manuscript from the 12th century.
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* Commemoration of the Miracles of the Holy Archangel Michael Entry for September 6 in the Prologue from Ochrid by St. Nikolai Velimirovich
He mentions Baruch by name in his Prologue to Jeremiah and notes that it is neither read nor held among the Hebrews, but does not explicitly call it apocryphal or " not in the canon ".
Hengist is briefly mentioned in Prologue, the first book of the Prose Edda, written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century.
Suspension of disbelief is sometimes said to be an essential component of live theater, where it was recognized by Shakespeare, who refers to it in the Prologue to Henry V:
The overture was frequently followed by a series of dance tunes before the curtain rose, and would often return following the Prologue to introduce the action proper.
# Prologue ( Saga Sell ) – Music by Mike Post / Velton Ray Bunch, narrated by Deborah Pratt ( 1: 05 )
After invoking, in the Prologue of the book, the Hindu gods Shiva and Vishnu (" by whom the earth and rest were produced "), Vidyāraṇya asks, in the first chapter:
The Prose Edda begins with a euhemerized Prologue followed by three distinct books: Gylfaginning ( consisting of around 20, 000 words ), Skáldskaparmál ( around 50, 000 words ) and Háttatal ( around 20, 000 words ).
The Prologue is the first section of four books of the Prose Edda, and consists of an euhemerized Christian account of the origins of Nordic mythology: the Nordic gods are described as human Trojan warriors who left Troy after the fall of that city ( an origin similar to the one chosen by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 12th century to account for the ancestry of the British nation ).
Among other sources, this figure is found in two poems compiled together and known as Svipdagsmál in the Poetic Edda, the Prologue to the Prose Edda, and by the name Swæfdæg in the mythical genealogies of the Anglian houses of Anglo-Saxon England.
Sceaf is unknown outside of English sources except for one mention in Snorri Sturluson's Prologue to the Prose Edda, which is informed by English sources.
Deptford began life as a ford of the Ravensbourne ( near what is now Deptford Bridge station ) along the route of the Celtic ancient trackway that developed into the medieval Watling Street ; it was part of the pilgrimage route to Canterbury from London used by the pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and is mentioned in the Prologue to the " Reeve's Tale ".
* Prologue: Other plays by Aristophanes begin quietly, with characters seated, lying or standing.
* Prologue ( c. 1372 ) – written at the end of his life as a preface to his collected works, this allegory describes Machaut's principles of poetry, music and rhetoric, as imparted to him by Nature and Love.
The first chapbook, written by Gaiman, comprised " Wall: A Prologue " short story, " Septimus ' Triolet " poem, " Song Of The Little Hairy Man ", and " The Old Warlock's Reverie: A Pantoum " poem.
* Animated Prologue for " The King of Jazz " by Walter Lantz
The General Prologue, from the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, explores " the Medieval social theory that society was made up of three ' estates '".
* Prologue from Ochrid by St. Nikolai Velimirović
* Prologue to Orango ( orchestration by Gerard McBurney ), Ryan McKinny ( Veselchak, bass-baritone ), Jordan Bisch ( Voice from the Crowd / Bass, bass ), Michael Fabiano ( Zoologist, tenor ), Eugene Brancoveanu ( Orango, baritone ), Yulia Van Doren ( Susanna, soprano ), Timur Bekbosunov ( Paul Mash, tenor ), Los Angeles Master Chorale ( Grant Gershon, Music Director ), Los Angeles Philharmonic ( December 2, 2011 )
His concert operatic titles were principally The Prologue ( from Pagliacci ), " Iago's Credo " ( Otello ), " Even Bravest Heart " ( Faust ) –- written originally by Gounod for Santley -- " Largo al Factotum " ( The Barber of Seville ), " Non più andrai " ( The Marriage of Figaro ), " O Star of Eve " ( Tannhäuser ), the " Toreador Song " ( Carmen ), " Pari siamo " ( Rigoletto ) and " Within This Hallowed Dwelling " ( The Magic Flute ).
*" The Reeve's Prologue and Tale " from The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
* The Holy Hieromartyr Dionysius the Areopagite entry from the Prologue from Ochrid by Nikolaj Velimirović
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