proser

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The purger, the proser, the bard—   All quacks in a different style; Doctor Southey writes books by the yard.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

His old schoolmaster called him "Ne'er-do-weel Peter;" but the dominie was a mere proser; he knew the moods and tenses of a Greek or Latin sentence, but he was incapable of appreciating its soul.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander

I am informed that, to-day, in Germany, the only two modern English dramatists who are listened to are Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw—the poet and the proser.

From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell

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)

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