soliloquist

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Acosta, his inner soliloquist liberated at last, engaged in a recitation, whereupon Miller gleefully retorted that said poem, written in 1883 by one Emma Lazarus, was tacked onto the statue years after it was erected.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2017

"Any way, I'm not likely to find myself sitting on a bench with her in St. James's Park, or anywhere else," concluded the soliloquist.

From The Long Trick by Bartimeus

"Why, a soliloquist in a crowd can hardly but be overheard, and without much reproach to the hearer."

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman

Being an inexpert and infrequent soliloquist, his only audible comment on his difficulties was the repetition in varying intonations of his fervent, unalterable conviction that he was damned.

From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

It was pretty evident, first, that I had a neighbor; secondly, that he spoke English; and thirdly, that he was either a somnambulist or a soliloquist.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various