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These observations with regard to the Odyssey should be made for another reason -- in order that you may know that the genius of great poets and prose-writers, as their passion declines, finds its final expression in the delineation of character.

Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

These observations with regard to the Odyssey should be made for another reason -- in order that you may know that the genius of great poets and prose-writers, as their passion declines, finds its final expression in the delineation of character.

On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010

The Italian prose-writers (of invention I mean) which I would recommend to your acquaintance, are Machiavello and Boccacio; the former, for the established reputation which he has acquired, of a consummate politician

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Thus, if we go to the Elizabethan prose-writers to solidify the splendid world of Elizabethan poetry as we should go now to our biographers, novelists, and journalists to solidify the world of

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

Even the prose-writers have the same habit of aggrandisement.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

For, quite apart from his philosophical pretensions, he claims recognition as a great writer; he is, indeed, one of the best of the few really excellent prose-writers of whom Germany can boast.

The Art of Literature 2004

Also those whom many people wish to be like; those who have many acquaintances or friends; those whom admire, or whom we ourselves admire; and those who have been praised and eulogized by poets or prose-writers.

Rhetoric Aristotle 2002

But as French painters and actors now habitually surpass all others even in what are claimed as the English qualities, -- simplicity and truth, -- so do French prose-writers excel.

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

As a geologist it is not our province to pronounce his eulogy; he was one of the most elegant and powerful prose-writers of the century, and he has some claims, as the following specimens attest, to a place among the national poets.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

But the hours of literary apprenticeship even of prose-writers are long and arduous, especially to those whose only patrimony is their shadow in the sun.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various