proser
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The consequence was, I soon got the name of an intolerable proser, and should in a little while have been completely excommunicated had I not changed my plan of operations.
From Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving
Thus Drayton writes of his contemporary Nashe: “And surely Nashe, though he a proser were, A branch of laurel yet deserves to bear”; that is, the ornament not of a ‘proser’, but of a poet.
From English Past and Present by Abram Smythe Palmer
"I am, sir," he once boasted to an analytical, unimaginative proser who had insisted upon explaining some quaint passage in Marvell or Wither, "I am, sir, a matter-of-lie man."
From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb
Truth was, my outward eyes were closed, Although I did not know it; Deep into dream-land I had dozed, And thus was happily transposed From proser into poet.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
I used to think him rather a proser; how I blessed his prosing now!
From The Altar Fire by Arthur Christopher Benson
If the poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He would be the awfullest of prosers if he had the gift of the gab.’
From That Stick by Charlotte Mary Yonge
His style seemed to me the poetical foil of all the prosers of all time.
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
His sermons were pithy and short; and he always spoke of your half-hour preachers, as illiterate prosers, who did not understand how to condense their thoughts.
From Satanstoe by James Fenimore Cooper
