proser
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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 Lowell, James Russell
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 Irving, Washington
"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 Lamb, Charles
Porriquet, unfortunately, was now an irritating old proser.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
I used to think him rather a proser; how I blessed his prosing now!
From The Altar Fire by Benson, Arthur Christopher
If the poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Saddletree, like other prosers, was blessed with a happy obtuseness of perception concerning the unfavourable impression which he sometimes made on his auditors.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Scott, Walter, Sir
The 'tout ensemble' of his movements wore a Grace of the soft ideal, seldom shown, And ne'er to be described; for to the dolour Of bards and prosers, words are void of colour.
From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
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 Calvert, George H. (George Henry)
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
