10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROSINESS»
Discover the use of
prosiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
prosiness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Sheldon did not exaggerate the prosiness of that intolerable man. I thought of the
luckless wedding guest in Coleridge's grim ballad as I sat listening to this modern
-ancient mariner. I had to remind myself of all the bright things to be bought for ...
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Belgravia: A London Magazine
Sheldon did not exaggerate the prosiness of that intolerable man. I thought of the
luckless wedding guest in Coleridge's grim ballad as I sat listening to this modern
-ancient mariner. I had to remind myself of all the bright things to be bought for ...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1867
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The Post-confessionals: Conversations with American Poets of ...
I want to avoid the opposed vices of prosiness and predictability, prosiness that is
emotionally bland and metrical regularity that is unnatural. Rubin: Have you been
interested, perhaps earlier in your career, in more traditional form? Dennis: I ...
Earl G. Ingersoll, Judith Kitchen, Stan Sanvel Rubin, 1989
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Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age, a ...
When passion is essentially present in the pagan, even his idolatry is not devoid
of devoutness; although he has a false concept, he has the idea that one should
fear God.9 But prosiness lacks the concept. Thus when a revolutionary age ...
Søren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad Hong, 1978
... felt herself raised some steps above this commonplace world, and regarded by
romantic young gentlemen as something very near a goddess, can never again
sink back into the insignificance and prosiness of every-day occupations.
Burnett's chief fault is prosiness; and though prosiness be not so much the
characteristic of Mr. Soamos's work, yet he is occasionally far too circumstantial,
while the general tone of sentiment is feeble, and the mass of his work, before he
has ...
and soothes the unslumbering listener into a wakefulness more delightful than
any sleep! ' We have heard Phoenix abused for prosiness, and irreverently called
an old dotard. True that he was so. We well remarked in our last Critique that all ...
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The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of ...
We have heard Phoenix abused for prosiness, and irreverently called an old
dotard. True that he was so. We well remarked in our last Critique that all old men
— that is to say, all men above forty — are more or less dotards. But, for all that,
the ...
John Wilson, James Frederick Ferrier, 1865
said Winter, yawning, " his prosiness would certainly have made me do that, or
else have sent me to sleep; but come, we've finished the bottle, let's order a cab,
and be off." " There's no hurry," said More, " what else did he say ?" Winter
yawned ...
the hon. henry coke, 1854
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Rosa St. Orme, and other tales
said Winter, yawning, " his prosiness would certainly have made me do that, or
else have sent me to sleep; but come, we've finished the bottle, let's order a cab,
and be off.” “There's no hurry,” said More, “what else did he say ?” Winter yawned
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9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROSINESS»
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prosiness is used in the context of the following news items.
Robert Adamson review: Autobiography at the core of his new poems
The opening line, with its deceptive prosiness, may remind longtime Adamson readers of Where I Come From (1979), a breakthrough collection in which he, via ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 15»
Cuba Frees Last of 53 Political Prisoners
These 53 people just released are not the last of the political prosiness in Cuba. There are still more in Cuba's jails. US Ambassador to the United Nations ... «Havana Times, Jan 15»
What WH Auden Can Do For You
... his early pyrotechnic lyrical talent into a lively sort of conversational verse, not devoid of metre and rhyme, but more thoughtful and essayistic in its prosiness. «Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 13»
'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,' at Richard Rodgers Theater
Otherwise, the scene has the singsong prosiness of a petulant teenager and his old man having an everyday argument about Junior's raiding the liquor cabinet ... «New York Times, Jan 13»
Portugal vs Spain Euro 2012 Highlights Penalties Video: Sorry folks …
Portugal vs Spain Euro 2012 Semifinals prosiness finally got the better of our reporter and he admitted he fell asleep in the dying minutes of Spain Portugal ... «National Turk English, Jun 12»
THEATER REVIEW | 'THE BROTHER/SISTER PLAYS'
... Brown Water,” which begins this series of portraits of hard lives in the bayou country of Louisiana, where everyday prosiness morphs slyly into folkloric poetry. «New York Times, Nov 09»
Hugh Trevor-Roper's 'The Invention of Scotland'
Drawing on an old but resilient stereotype, he contrasts English prosiness with Celtic imagination. Yes, he admits, the English "have created one of the great ... «New York Sun, Jul 08»
Metric conversion: Why poet Michael Hofmann stopped 'wreaking …
His first reviewers welcomed the work's originality ("a poetry receptive to the world as it is") or were affronted by a clipped prosiness which suggested that ... «Independent, May 08»
The Collected Poems of Conrad Aiken
... fact quite different from older forms of verse is hardly an indictment in itself, but that clanging noise -- its persistent prosiness and choppiness -- and the “aiming ... «Bookslut, Jun 06»
