Proser

Clara herself a lover? and if that old proser, meaning the ❋ Wilhelm Meinhold (1824)

I beheld a damsel, white as a full moon when it mooneth on its fourteenth night, with joined eyebrows twain and languorous lids of eyne, breasts like pomegranates twin and dainty, lips like double carnelian, a mouth as it were the seal-of Solomon, and teeth ranged in a line that played with the reason of proser and rhymer, even as saith the poet, ❋ Unknown (2006)

For none shall own me but he, because his cheek is smooth and the water of his mouth sweet as Salsabil; 273 his spittle is a cure for the sick and his charms daze and dazzle poet and proser, even as saith one of him, ❋ Unknown (2006)

Nobody can understand your "leaks" but 8th year English Lit majors and most everybody's stopped reading them already -- since they're nothing more than mastubatory prose that tickles the poseur proser, more than it relays information. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I love proser, I took a cash loan about a year ago, paid it off recently, and about to get my car loan from there … just my 2 cents. reply ❋ Erick Schonfeld (2005)

But a great revolution there has been, from nobody's reading anything, to every body's reading all things; and perhaps it began with that good old proser Richardson, the father of Pamela, Clarissa, and ❋ Various (N/A)

Herodotus is telling of wonders that his friends, and we too, want to hear, that in the tragedies we hear the voice of Sophocles dictating, choked with emotion and tears; that even Roman historians wrote because they had something to tell, and Caesar, dull proser that he is, composed the _Commentaries_ not to provide us with style or grammatical curiosities, but as a record of extraordinary events. ❋ Various (N/A)

Hallam is a dull proser -- no discovery or illustration, no profound thought, no vivid description, not even a harmonious period. ❋ Various (N/A)

The boys, to whom their grandfather -- so far as they regarded him at all -- had mainly presented himself as a benevolent old proser, were surprised to find that they sincerely regretted him; and the events of the next few weeks threw up his merits (now that the time was past for rewarding them) into a sharp light which memory overarched with a halo. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

I used to think him rather a proser; how I blessed his prosing now! ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

Fortunately for the present proser the weather wasn't always fine; the first month was wet and windy, and it was better to judge of the matter from an open casement than to respond to the advances of persuasive gondoliers. ❋ Henry James (1879)

None shall possess me but he, 'added she;' for his cheek is smooth and the water of his mouth sweet as Selsebil; [FN#15] his sight is a cure for the sick and his charms confound poet and proser, even as saith one of him: ❋ Anonymous (1879)

Then I drew near the door, and raising the curtain little by little, beheld a damsel, white as the moon, when it rises on its fourteenth night, with joined eyebrows and languorous eyelids, breasts like twin pomegranates and dainty lips like twin corn-marigolds, [FN#28] mouth as it were Solomon's seal and teeth that sported with the reason of rhymester and proser, even as saith the poet: ❋ Anonymous (1879)

A nephew of the poet Desportes, Regnier was loyal to his uncle's fame and to the memory of the Pléiade; if Malherbe spoke slightingly of Desportes, and cast aside the tradition of the school of Ronsard, the retort was speedy and telling against the arrogant reformer, tyrant of words and syllables, all whose achievement amounted to no more than _proser de la rime et rimer de la prose_. ❋ Edward Dowden (1878)

It is my ancient mariner's belief that he ran away from home, after some desperate quarrel with his father; and it is also the belief of my ancient that he stayed away, without intermission, for twenty years, -- though on what precise fact that belief is founded is much more than I can extract from the venerable proser. ❋ Unknown (1875)

I have mistaken my vocation, thought Diana: I am certainly the flattest proser who ever penned a line. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

Being, as I have said, something between a proser and a declaimer, he thought himself eloquent, and would seize occasions to hold forth to the general edification, in a style intended to dazzle the bystanders. ❋ Unknown (1862)

Let a good, thorough-paced proser get hold of one of these stories, and he carefully desiccates them of whatever fancy may be left, till he has reduced them to the proper dryness of fact. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)