Dear PayneA friend and fellow-clerk of mine, Mr. White (a good fellow) coming to your parts, I would fain have accompanied him, but am forced instead to send a part of me, verse and prose, most of it from 20 to 30 years old, such as I then was, and I am not much altered.

I have felt all through as if the story would have lent itself best to metrical rather than to prose fiction, especially in all that relates to the psychology of Silas; except that, under that treatment, there could not be an equal play of humour."

Gracian, in Spain, became especially popular as a foremost representative of his time in transferring the humour for conceitscultismo, as it was calledfrom verse to prose.

He began in 1630 with a prose tract, the Hero, laboured in short ingenious sentences, which went through six editions.

Hence the later Scottish song-writers seldom really sing; their proses want the unconscious lilt and flash of their old models; they will hardly go (the true test of a song) without music.

The realities lay about him now: the books jamming his old college bookcases and overflowing on chairs and tables; sketches toohe could do charming things, if only he had known how to finish them!and, on the writing-table at his elbow, scattered sheets of prose and verse; charming things also, but, like the sketches, unfinished.

What he most wanted, now that the first flutter of being was over, was to learn and to doto know what the great people had thought, think about their thinking, and then launch his own boat: write some good verse if possible; if not, then critical prose.

A dramatic poem lay among the stuff at his elbow; but the prose critic was at his elbow too, and not to be satisfied about the poem; and poet and critic passed the nights in hot if unproductive debate.

According to the Prose Edda, "Iduna keeps in a box the apples which the gods, when they feel old age approaching, have only to taste of to become young again.

"Prose and verse shall woo her for my lady-love; and she shall blush and hang her head in modest joy, even as the rose when listening to the music of her beloved bulbul beneath the stars of night.

The main body of imaginative prose literaturethe novelis treated of in the next chapter and here no attempt will be made to deal with any but the admittedly greatest names.

His message is at once larger and simpler, for though his form was prose, his soul was a poet's soul, and what he has to say is a poet's word.

There were mediaeval romances in prose and verse; Renaissance pastoral tales, and stories of adventure; collections, plenty of them, of short stories like Boccaccio's, and those in Painter's Palace of Pleasure.

His later work in poetry and prose, devoted to the reconstruction of English history, is remarkable for the justness and saneness of its temper.

Poemes et proses.

Poemes et proses.

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JEFFERSON, BERNARD L. Creative prose writing, by Bernard L. Jefferson and Harry Houston Peckham.

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NUMBER FIVE JOY STREET; a medley of prose and verse for boys and girls, by Walter de la Mare and others.

Poemes et proses.

Poemes et proses.

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The friend who remains standing and fidgetting about while a patient is talking business to him, or the friend who sits and proses, the one from an idea of not letting the patient talk, the other from an idea of amusing him, each is equally inconsiderate.

"Brown cicala drily proses, Creaking the hot air to sleep, Bounteous orange flowers and roses, Yield the wealth of love they keep, To the sun's imperious ardour in a dream of fragrance deep.