单词 | prosiness |
例句 | The greatest strength and weakness of Mr. Elliott’s production, which is performed without an intermission, lie in its determined prosiness. Review: In Shepard’s ‘Buried Child,’ a Father and Family Dissolve Into Darkness 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z If he has not the wit of Sydney Smith, nor the brilliance of Macaulay, he has not the prosiness of Alison, nor the bitterness of Gifford. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Humor seeks to provoke mirth and ripples of cheery satisfaction, so it shuns length and prosiness. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z Imagination faltered, nay, refused even to attempt to establish a relation between its prosiness and this romantic figure with a face cast in the image of the stone gods! The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z There is something in prosiness that resembles a moral paralysis, and I fear it as I should fear a real palsy. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z There was a certain poetry in the visions of Trevethlan Castle, which veiled the real prosiness of the orphans' scheme. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. Guard against a feeble fluency, a —— prosiness, a facility of saying nothing. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions But, to save us from the sin of prosiness, let us indulge in a little romance. Mushrooms on the Moor Even Shelley lapses into deadly and arid prosiness when his chief interest becomes the presentation of the political ideas of Godwin. Human Traits and their Social Significance But there is no languor, no feebleness, no sleepy prosiness, to indicate where vivacity flagged, and where an episode or paragraph was finished after the glow had yielded to exhaustion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 For all its sins of flatness and prosiness the Classical School has always taught discipline. Romance Two Lectures Compare the prosiness of his verse with his efforts to use poetic cadence in The Triumph of the Egg. Contemporary American Literature Bibliographies and Study Outlines The real significance of that prayer lies in the fact that the supreme tendency of middle life is towards prosiness. Mushrooms on the Moor I am an old man now, and you must forgive an old man's prosiness; but a little sadness comes into my thoughts when I muse on the past. Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence The chief indictment to be made against Blom's translation is its prosiness, its prosy, involved sentences, its banality. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Yet I doubt if these stately authors, wrapped in the cerements of their prosiness, may reasonably reproach a forgetful world. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 What was now wanted was a book entirely unlike his; a book that would influence the vaster public, whom his homely prosiness would never reach. The Cathedral The trouble is that prosiness may develop into pessimism. Mushrooms on the Moor But the little twinkle around his eyes belied in some way the utter prosiness of the act. The White Linen Nurse West objected to the length and prosiness of Agrippina's speeches. Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes Mrs. Million found Vivian's conversation no disagreeable relief to the pompous prosiness of his predecessor. Vivian Grey His facts and speculations will thus interest a large and valuable class of readers, while to some few of another class a certain suspicion of prosiness will be distasteful. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 And when prosiness curdles into pessimism the case of the patient is very grave. Mushrooms on the Moor However, where all is dark to me the astute Sheldon may see daylight, so I'll observe the letter of my bond, and check off the residuum of the ancient mariner's prosiness. Birds of Prey In his more technical passages the clearness and simplicity is absent, the prosiness and lack of imagination remain, nakedly hideous. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Delighted with his popularity among the elect, Browning seems to have cultivated his talent for obscurity, or it may be that his natural eccentricity of style increased with age, as did Wordsworth's prosiness. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived Nothing around him but stupid, vulgar prosiness, foolish moral annihilation. The Grip of Desire Miltonic in its grandeur and proportions, and Miltonic in its prosiness and mongrel classicism also, yet its power and effectiveness are unmistakable. Winter Sunshine How am I to disintegrate the mass of prosiness which I have heard this day? Birds of Prey However, after she had worked her "write-up" over several times, she prefixed a paragraph on the decorations which she hoped would atone for the drab prosiness of the rest. Missy The prosiness of an ordinary Mechanics' Institute lecture was to him simply abhorrent; the learned platitudes of a professed lecturer were to him, to use one of his own phrases, "worse than poison." The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters Half-a-dozen years passed away, and Mr. and Mrs. Lodge’s married experience sank into prosiness, and worse. Wessex Tales He proved to be a tiresome speaker and his prosiness, when added to the suspicion attaching to his motives, cost him much of the influence which he might otherwise have had. The Fathers of the Constitution; a chronicle of the establishment of the Union Dear girl, forgive my prosiness; marry my boy. A Room with a View He always wanted to meet his fellow, and hence that abundance of speech, which, however poetic the things he said, not a few called prosiness. Donal Grant, by George MacDonald Surely it might be permitted Lawyer Gooch to mitigate the bore of briefs, the tedium of torts and the prosiness of processes with even so light a levy upon the good property of humour. Whirligigs |
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