Lexicographical Neighbors of Prosaisms
Literary usage of Prosaisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literature of the Georgian Era by William Minto (1895)
"All this was provoked by the open contempt for his prosaisms. He carried the war
into the enemy's country with the angry retort: " Cleanse yourselves of ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... there is a numerous class of critics, who, when they stumble upon these
prosaisms, as they call them, imagine that they have made a notable discovery, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"He was generally eloquent on "our age," speaking as if he were intimately acquainted
with other ages ; and complained loudly of the " prosaisms of the day," ..."
4. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry by Raymond Dexter Havens (1922)
"... of expressions like these, and censured Thomson for such "prosaisms" as "stealing
from the barn a straw," "clean and complete," and "to tempt the trout. ..."
5. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie (1813)
"We must pardon some defects in diction, and some prosaisms: the bounds between
poetry and fiction not having then been sufficiently ascertained. ..."
6. The Christian Examiner (1845)
"... and prosaisms of expression have to our credulous souls the grace and impress
of genius. We are sorry not to be able to quote from these volumes. ..."
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