| 单词 | prose writer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprose writer prose writer n. an author who writes in prose. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > [noun] > prose writer prosaic1589 proseman1589 prose writer1600 proser?1614 prosaist1776 prosateur1796 prosist1809 prosator1891 1600 N. Breton Pasquils Mad-cap 36 Tell prose-Writers, Stories are so stale, That pennie Ballads make a better sale. 1697 J. Addison Ess. Georgics in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. ¶4 Where the Prose-writer tells us plainly what ought to be done, the Poet often conceals the Precept in a description. 1746 Fool (1748) I. 15 The Sons of Imagination, whether Lovers or..Prose-Writers, or Versificators. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxix. 130 The philosopher Pherekydês of Syros, about 550 b.c., is called by some the earliest prose-writer. 1968 New Oxf. Hist. Music IV. vii. 375 The Spanish polyphonists of this century express a religious devotion and mystic fervour parallel to that of the painters and religious poets and prose-writers of the same epoch. 2002 P. Cachia Arabic Lit. v. 99 Can one find in the originality displayed by Andalusian prose writers traces of stimulation that may be ascribed to folk literature? < as lemmas |
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