proser

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

"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

I sympathize with you for the dole which you are dreeing under the inflictions of your honest proser.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

Here offers you still the full use of his breath, Your devoted and long-winded proser till death.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

"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

If the poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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 Sir Walter Scott

Poets and prosers have alike compared her to a beautiful woman; and while one finds nothing but loveliness in her, another shudders at her fatal fascination.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various