It must be remembered that 'The Prelude' itself was a posthumous publication; and also that the fragmentary canto of 'The Recluse', entitled "Home at Grasmere"as well as the other canto published in 1886, and entitled (most prosaically) "Composed when a probability existed of our being obliged to quit Rydal Mount as a residence"were not published by the poet himself.

A poetical mind sees noble and affecting suggestions in details which the prosaic mind will interpret prosaically.

In regard to lunch, I suppose that in prosaically paying our way for bed and board as we fared along we fell short of the Arcadian theory of walking-tours in which the wayfarer, like a mendicant friar, takes toll of lunch and dinner from the hospitable farmer of sentimental legend, and sleeps for choice in barns, hayricks or hedgesides.

Prosaically, we shall be glad to have you both,or any two of youdrop in by surprise some Saturday night.

But this lack of a fixed specific style spread likewise to other forms of composition; Schiller's drama became too rhetorical; Friedrich Rückert's lyric poetry too prosaically didactic; that of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff often too obscure and sketchy.

All you have to do is to lift this small finger of yours" He indicated the digit by a loverly kiss "and I'll be as meek and lowly asas an ash can," he finished prosaically.

I was insanely sentimental enough to rather resent the fact that Charlie was prosaically well off: his circumstances were distressingly easy.

This apostle of unrestrained amours found himself most prosaically married and involved in the most commonplace struggle for daily bread, when he was only twenty-three.

Goes life well or ill with her?'" Madame played her cards slowly, one would say, for her, prosaically.

Here the prosodist has made his own examples; and the last one, which unjustly impeaches all dactylics, he has made very badlyvery prosaically; for the word "Dactylic," though it has three syllables, is properly no dactyl, but rather an amphibrach. OBS.

This boy, when he saw that his love was vain, would not gloomily and prosaically slay himself as Macchia, the Italian poet, had done.

In the end, the panel had to be just prosaically pried out.

Giraldus, who seems to have been himself in Wales at the time, speaks sentimentally of the unfortunate exile, and describes him inhaling the scent of his beloved country from the Welsh coast, and feasting his eyes tenderly upon his own land: "Although the distance," he more prosaically adds, "being very great, it was difficult to distinguish mountains from clouds."

But it is hard to portray the absolute at all without rising into what might be called the 'inspired' style of languageI use the word not ironically, but prosaically and descriptively, to designate the only literary form that goes with the kind of emotion that the absolute arouses.

Throw all your metaphors to the windsyour poetic rapturesyour idealsyour romance of position and of circumstance: look at a fair, amiable, cultivated woman, as you meet her in the actual, commonplace scenes of life: she is literally, prosaically speaking, the last consummate result of the creative power of nature, and the gathered refinements of centuries of human civilization.

It might be likened to the pearly nautilus, which passes, by gradual growth and movement, from cell to cell in slow succession; or, more prosaically, to that oft-repaired garment, which at last consisted entirely of patches.

The man who has learnt to do all conventional things perfectly has at the same time learnt to do them prosaically.