3579 examples of proses in sentences
As a literary form, the piece belongs to the class called Satura Menippea, a satiric medley in prose and verse.
Azrael, the Angel of Death, accomplishes his mission by holding it to the nostrils, and in the prose
His prose Essays and Letters, including The Defence of Poetry, appeared in 1840.
Jeremy Taylor, Milton (his prose works), and BurkeDante and MiltonScaliger and Dr. Johnson.
It was his first important prose work; and prose requires continuous labour.
It was his first important prose work; and prose requires continuous labour.
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.
Poemes et proses.
Poemes et proses.
Simon & Schuster, Inc. (PWH); 28Apr71; R505324. SAILLET, MAURICE. Poemes et proses.
Poemes et proses.
Poemes et proses.
Simon & Schuster, Inc. (PWH); 28Apr71; R505324. SAILLET, MAURICE. Poemes et proses.
I chattered, and I felt intensely at home in it; yes, I could write a sonnet or a ballade almost without a slip, but my prose required a good deal of alteration, for a greater command of language is required to write in prose than in verse.
I chattered, and I felt intensely at home in it; yes, I could write a sonnet or a ballade almost without a slip, but my prose required a good deal of alteration, for a greater command of language is required to write in prose than in verse.
When I returned from Paris, my English terribly corrupt with French ideas and forms of thought, I could write acceptable English verse, but even ordinary newspaper prose was beyond my reach, and an attempt I made to write a novel drifted into a miserable failure.
Here is a poem that Cabaner admired; he liked it in the French prose translation which I made for him one night in the Nouvelle Athènes: We are alone!
that worn-out rhetoric which reminds you of a broken-winded barrel-organ playing a che la morte, bad enough in prose, but when set up in blank verse awful and shocking in its more than natural deformitybut bright quips and cranks fresh from the back-yard of the slum where the linen is drying, or the "pub" where the unfortunate wife has just received a black eye that will last her a week.
I found them pretty, very pretty, but nothing more,a sort of Ashby Sterry done into very neat prose.
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.
In the written words of neither Haydn nor Mozart do we find any reference to the poetical and prose works of Germany or of other nations, nor is there any evidence that their imaginations were influenced by suggestions drawn from literature.
To turn to the other side of this duality, allusions to music in works of both prose and poetry have become increasingly frequent during the nineteenth century, and the musical art is no longer considered a mysterious abstraction entirely divorced from the outward world of men and events.
What has happened, one would like to know, to The Ivory Gate, that 'volume of prosaic poetry and poetical prose,' which Beddoes talked of publishing in 1837?
So, when poor Cecil, uneasy in her mind, began asking about the illness at Wil'sbro', he enlivened her with a prose about misjudging, through well-intentioned efforts of clerical philanthropy to interfere with the sanitary condition of the town so that wells grew tainted, &c., all from ignorant interference.
