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Title, prologue and epilogues to the Recuyell of the histories of Troy ; Epilogue to Dictes and sayings of the philosophers ; Prologue to Golden legend ; Prologue to Caton ; Epilogue to Aesop ; Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury tales ; Prologue to Malory's King Arthur ; Prologue to Virgil's Eneydos / William Caxton -- Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian religion / John Calvin ; translated by John Allen --Dedication of the Revolutions of the heavenly bodies / Nicolaus Copernicus -- Preface to the History of the reformation in Scotland / John Knox -- Prefatory letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on the Faerie queene / Edmund Spenser -- Preface to the History of the world / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Prooemium, epistle dedicatory, preface, and plan of the Instaturatio magna, etc. / Francis Bacon ; translation edited by J. Spedding -- Preface to the Novum organum / Francis Bacon -- Preface to the first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays / Heminge and Condell -- Preface to the Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica / Sir Isaac Newton ; translated by Andrew Motte. Preface of fables, ancient and modern / John Dryden -- Preface to Joseph Andrews / Henry Fielding -- Preface to the English dictionary ; Preface to Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson -- Introduction to the Propylaen / J.W. von Goethe --Prefaces to various volumes of poems ; Appendix to lyrical ballads ; Essays supplementary to preface / William Wordsworth -- Preface to Cromwell / Victor Hugo -- Preface to Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman -- Introduction to the history of English literature / H.A. Taine. |
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