Which preposition to use with prose

of Occurrences 134%

Music and poetry flowed smoothly and naturally from his lips, but in uttering the common prose of daily life his organs were rebellious.

in Occurrences 38%

For, the Jews were accustomed to interpose brief readings from Scripture prose in their psalm chanting service.

as Occurrences 17%

Even such masters of classical prose as Francis Parkman, perhaps the greatest historian who has used the English language as his vehicle, are almost unknown to the average reader.

by Occurrences 16%

It was first licensed 'in prose by Martyn Parker' to Oulton, 24 November, 1640.

to Occurrences 15%

French influence was cumulative in changing the cumbersome style of Milton's prose to the polished, neatly-turned sentences of Addison.

from Occurrences 12%

It still remains for him, to prove his Inference, that, Since Verse is granted to be more remote than Prose from ordinary conversation; therefore no serious Plays ought to be writ in Verse: and when he clearly makes that good, I will acknowledge his victory as absolute as he can desire it.

than Occurrences 11%

There is no more beautiful English prose than Nathaniel Hawthorne's.

with Occurrences 10%

Con Licenza de' Superiori, [wherein] some former owner of the volume has copied out Lamb's prose with many exact verbal resemblances from the poem.

on Occurrences 8%

Mr. COLMAN, in his Prose on several occasions, has A Letter from LEXIPHANES; containing Proposals for a Glossary or Vocabulary of the Vulgar Tongue: intended as a Supplement to a larger DICTIONARY.

at Occurrences 6%

It is not without some signatures of the bishop's good sense and taste; and, making a just allowance for the use of a few obsolete terms, and the puerile custom of that age in making affected repetitions and reiterations of the same word within the compass of a period, it would read like no bad prose at present.

for Occurrences 5%

er of this little book will be apt to notice very soon that though its title is Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading, the verse occupies nine tenths, the prose being confined to about two hundred proverbs and familiar sayingssome of them, indeed, in rhymescattered in groups throughout the book.

about Occurrences 4%

She wondered how long the two men were going to prose about mines and shares, in those subdued half-mysterious voices, telling each other occult facts in half-expressed phrases, utterly dark to the outside world; but, while she was languidly wondering, a change in her lover's manner startled her into keenest curiosity.

like Occurrences 2%

She may seem susceptible to the alien influences of exile; but it is as an exile that she suffers; and her most inspired moments are her moments of return, when she wrote prose like this: "The moon reigns glorious, glad of the gale; as glad as if she gave herself to his fierce caress with love.

into Occurrences 2%

The old Norman chroniclers describe the preparations of William on his landing with a graphic vigor, which would be wholly lost by transfusing their racy Norman couplets and terse Latin prose into the current style of modern history.

under Occurrences 1%

His maiden effort in stage literature, "The Ladies' Battle," was produced in 1851; but it was not until November, 1852, with the appearance of "Masks and Faces"the story which he afterwards adapted into prose under the title of "Peg Woffington"that Reade became famous as a playwright.

before Occurrences 1%

Heine wrote poetry after 1831, and he wrote prose before 1831; but in a general way what he says of his two periods is correct: before his emigration he was primarily a poet, and afterwards primarily a critic, journalist, and popular historian.

Which preposition to use with  prose