proser
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His old schoolmaster called him "Ne'er-do-weel Peter;" but the dominie was a mere proser; he knew the moods and tenses of a Greek or Latin sentence, but he was incapable of appreciating its soul.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton
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
Your late proposal from him made me hint this to * *, who is a much better proser and scholar than I am, and a very superior man indeed.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
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
"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
If the poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction.
From Time Magazine Archive
He read his Swinburne again, and unearthed from the bottom of a trunk some books that dealt with the decadent's joys,—poets of the Flesh, and prosers of the Devil, in his many weary forms.
From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren
Have I not read lives of all the illustrious prosers you gave me to look through?
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever
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
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
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