单词 | prose work |
释义 | > as lemmasprose work a. With the sense ‘consisting of or written in prose’, as prose book, prose satire, prose work, etc. ΚΠ 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 22v The two prose Bookes playd at the Belsauage, where you shall finde neuer a woorde, without witte, neuer a line without pith, neuer a letter placed in vaine. 1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World II. Pref. sig. A3 Cervantes among the Spaniards was the first who wrote in this Drolling sort of Prose-Satyr. 1720 T. Yalden in Misc. Poems & Transl. (ed. 3) II. 155 (title) On the reprinting Mr. Milton's prose-works, with his poems written in his Paradise lost. 1761 T. Percy Let. 28 May in T. Warton Corr. (1995) i. 87 The Author of Mort. Arthur..only drew up a prose narrative of, and threw together into a regular story the Subject of a hundred Old Ballads. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 23 In verse or prose, or in verse-text aided by prose-comment. 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. xi. 241 Here we have..the prose account. 1897 W. P. Ker Epic & Romance 66 The Icelandic Sagas—the prose histories of the fortunes of the great Icelandic houses. 1919 T. S. Eliot Let. 17 June (1988) I. 304 I have been corresponding with a publisher about a possible prose book. 1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 272/2 In the first century the archaist revival we know as Atticism strove to approximate the language of prose literature to that of classical Attic. 1993 Paragraph Summer 40/2 What results is not a traditional autobiography, but a series of connected prose pieces that combine travel writing, autobiography, [etc.]. 2006 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 18 June vii. 27 His main achievement lies in his prose works, which include two remarkable volumes of memoir..and two brilliant instances of dramatic thinking. < as lemmas |
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