proser

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 Zeitlin, Jacob

A painter and composer Of taste and spirit when he wooed his bride;— What wonder if the man became a proser When she was snugly settled by his side?

From Love's Comedy by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

I used to think him rather a proser; how I blessed his prosing now!

From The Altar Fire by Benson, Arthur Christopher

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 Palmer, Abram Smythe

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 Hazlitt, William

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 Wren, Percival Christopher

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

Love to all my friends, poets, prosers, and the dear ——, who are that most excellent thing, readers.

From Yesterdays with Authors by Fields, James T.

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