prosateur

We do not even possess any equivalent of the French "prosateur," though I see no reason why "prosator" should not be used.

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

I warned you that I had been told of his being somewhat of a 'prosateur' at his Club.

Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) Edward FitzGerald 1846

More than one “prosateur” has affected to despise poetry; in reference to which propensity, we may call to mind the bon-mot of Montaigne: “We cannot attain to poetry; let us revenge ourselves by abusing it.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Mallarmé called him, 'le prosateur ouvragé par excellence de ce temps.'

Figures of Several Centuries Arthur Symons 1905

Cicero is diffuse, and often affords little more than small-talk on abstract topics; Tacitus a brilliant but affected prosateur, Caesar a dull and uninspiring author.

From a College Window Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

He is, in short, the vigorous, racy _prosateur_ of that human comedy of which Mr. Abbey is the poet.

Picture and Text 1893 Henry James 1879

"To the hero of the day," he said, "to the young poet who combines the gift of the _prosateur_ with the charm and poetic faculty of Petrarch in that sonnet-form which Boileau declares to be so difficult."

Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824

"To the hero of the day," he said, "to the young poet who combines the gift of the _prosateur_ with the charm and poetic faculty of Petrarch in that sonnet-form which Boileau declares to be so difficult."

Eve and David Honor�� de Balzac 1824

The Doric qualities of his work are becoming recognized also, and he is being read, as he has always been read by his true disciples -- so not inappropriately to name those who have come under his graver spell -- not merely as a _prosateur_ of purple patches, or a sophist of honeyed counsels tragically easy to misapply, but as an artist of the interpretative imagination of rare insight and magic, a writer of deep humanity as well as aesthetic beauty, and the teacher of

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

“To the hero of the day,” he said, “to the young poet who combines the gift of the prosateur with the charm and poetic faculty of Petrarch in that sonnet-form which

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