proser
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I am informed that, to-day, in Germany, the only two modern English dramatists who are listened to are Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw—the poet and the proser.
From Oscar Wilde by Leonard Cresswell Ingleby
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
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
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
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
If the poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Commend us to one picturesque, garrulous old fellow, like Froissart, or Philip de Comines, or Bishop Burnet, before all the philosophic prosers that ever prosed.
From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by James Hogg
His style seemed to me the poetical foil of all the prosers of all time.
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
From the prosers that one hears in pulpits, legislatures, lecture-rooms, at morning calls and well-appointed dinner-tables in Anglo-America, let no man infer against our poetic endowment.
From Essays Æsthetical by George H. (George Henry) Calvert
