| 单词 | prose dramatist |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprose dramatist b. With the sense ‘composing or writing in prose’, as prose author, prose dramatist, etc. See also prose writer n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > [adjective] prosaical1583 prosea1586 prosal1654 prosaic1656 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. K4 Peculier to Versifiers, and..not..among Prose-Printers. 1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love iii. 31 The Prose-wits playing, and the Verse-wits rooking. 1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 82 Poets, and Prose-Authors in every kind. 1796 S. Jones New Biogr. Dict. (ed. 2) Smart (Christopher), an English poet, miscellaneous writer, and prose translator of Horace. 1829 Westm. Rev. 11 490 He stands among the foremost of the prose fictionists of the hour. 1851 Times 5 May 6/4 He has all the luxuriant fancy and vigour of language which belong to our old prose dramatists. 1866 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 1st Ser. 172 In..First Principles we have a kind of prose Lucretius. 1913 F. W. Hall Compan. Classical Texts ii. 31 Much valuable work appears to have been done on prose authors such as the Attic Orators. 2005 Publishers Weekly (Nexis) 31 Oct. 13 King is the latest prose author to sign with Marvel. < as lemmas |
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