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Now, we have prefixed the hackneyed line of Il Penseroso to our paper, because it is a definition of the essence of the beautiful.

From The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character by Ruskin, John

To all of his novels he might appropriately have prefixed the words of the author of Sordello: "My stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul; little else is worth study."

From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon

Having done this, the reader is ready for the book the title of which we have prefixed.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 by Various

I have prefixed an introductory discourse concerning Taste; it is a matter curious in itself; and it leads naturally enough to the principal inquiry.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

We have authors who sold their names to be prefixed to works they never read; or, on the contrary, have prefixed the names of others to their own writings.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac