proser
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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
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
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
He is as little of a proser as possible; but he blurts out the finest wit and sense in the world.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
"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
His style seemed to me the poetical foil of all the prosers of all time.
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
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
He would be the awfullest of prosers if he had the gift of the gab.’
From That Stick by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
