Nay, which never in any other instance happened to the most fortunate poet, his very inaugural essays in verse were treated, not as Prelusive efforts of auspicious promise, but as finished works of art, entitled to take their station amongst the literature of the land; and in the most worthless of all his poems, Walsh, an established authority, and whom Dryden pronounced the ablest critic of the age, found proofs of equality with Virgil.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
I should at once have concluded it caused by Prelusive illness, but for my remembrance of what both my uncle and myself had seen, so long before, in the thunderstorm; while John, willing enough to attribute its recurrence to that cause, found it impossible to concede that he was anything but well when crossing the moor.
"The Flight of the Shadow"
George MacDonald
It was with a Prelusive smile that shone on the mother's heart like the opening of heaven, that Ian lowered his book to answer her question.
"What's Mine's Mine V1"
George MacDonald