proser
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Crites, who is not more long-winded than may be permitted to a polite proser, at least on the Thames of a summer evening, somewhat condensed, reasoneth thus.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
"What a bore that must be he is a most insufferable proser."
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
He is as little of a proser as possible; but he blurts out the finest wit and sense in the world.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
He is as little of a proser as possible, but he blurts out the finest wit and sense in the world.
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin
The purger, the proser, the bard— All quacks in a different style; Doctor Southey writes books by the yard.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
If the poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction.
From Time Magazine Archive
I’m sick of the prosers, that house up At drowsy St Stephen’s,—ain’t you?
From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Richard Doyle
He would be the awfullest of prosers if he had the gift of the gab.’
From That Stick by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Love to all my friends, poets, prosers, and the dear ——, who are that most excellent thing, readers.
From Yesterdays with Authors by James T. Fields
After twenty years of pulpit prosers, there suddenly rose before her a sacred orator; an orator born; blest with that divine and thrilling eloquence that no heart can really resist.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various
