Lexicographical Neighbors of Prosaists
Literary usage of Prosaists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects: Ionic by Herbert Weir Smyth (1894)
"In the ey declension the inscriptions have without exception -fis, the prosaists -as ;
in the future of liquid verbs the MSS. of Hdt. do not contract ее, ..."
2. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1907)
"Of course the common prosody was observed by prosaists as well as by poets ...
Not all prosaists permitted themselves the hiatus : many, like Isocrates, ..."
3. Analytics of Literature: A Manual for the Objective Study of English Prose by Lucius Adelno Sherman (1893)
"The question is often forced upon us, Why do poets keep so far asunder, while
prosaists are individualized within much narrower limits? ..."
4. The History of the English Paragraph by Edwin Herbert Lewis (1894)
"In a list of 73 representative English prosaists, the average word-length of the
paragraph falls in the case of each of 52 authors between the limits of 100 ..."
5. Germany by Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine), Orlando Williams Wight, Friedrich Max Müller (1861)
"... generation after generation of mere prosaists succeed these high Psalmists.
Science indeed advances, practical manipulation in all kinds improves; ..."
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