prosers

Poets yielded turf to prosers when Dickens started capturing gritty urban landscapes that people were actually slogging through, while poets kept writing about fairies or knights in armor.

Archive 2009-11-01 Rus Bowden 2009

We have often as good hearts, ay, and as much good nature, too, as the careful prosers who utter nothing but what is right, or the heavy thinkers who have too little fancy to say anything that is wrong.

Camilla 2008

But Saddletree, like other prosers, was blessed with a happy obtuseness of perception concerning the unfavourable impression which he sometimes made on his auditors.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

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.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

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.

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

For Dr Nott, on whom he triumphantly builds, and whose proofs he seems to adopt -- he is the weakest and most wrongheaded of all possible prosers; and, what is more, his opinions, if they deserve the name, differ _toto coelo_ from Southey's.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

Many people can say, as they bethink themselves of their old college companions, that those who wrote with good sense and good taste at twenty have mostly settled down into the dullest and baldest of prosers; while such as dealt in bombastic flourishes and absurd ambitiousness of style have learned, as time went on, to prune their early luxuriances, while still retaining something of raciness, interest, and ornament.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

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.

Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

His style seemed to me the poetical foil of all the prosers of all time.

Confessions of Boyhood John Albee 1874

He would be the awfullest of prosers if he had the gift of the gab. '

That Stick Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862