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

Your late proposal from him made me hint this to * *, who is a much better proser and scholar than I am, and a very superior man indeed.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

"I am, sir," he once boasted to an analytical, unimaginative proser who had insisted upon explaining some quaint passage in Marvell or Wither, "I am, sir, a matter-of-lie man."

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles

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

"What a bore that must be he is a most insufferable proser."

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James