Poetry must be as well written as prose. From LearnThat.org. [Ezra Pound (1885-1972)]
I think that to capture another time in prose is a gift beyond worth. From Wordnik.com. [Living in the past - minor news...] Reference
Yasmin's (Anika Noni Rose) crime report to the police officer, in prose, is almost placid yet intense. From Wordnik.com. [Jenee Darden: HuffPost Review: Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls] Reference
I've heard often that Morrison can be difficult to read, as her prose is a little "stylistic" - did you feel that way?. From Wordnik.com. [Beloved by Toni Morrison] Reference
"Martel's aims are ambitious, but the prose is amateur and the characters thin, the coy self-referentiality grates ...". From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel: Book summary] Reference
"Steeped in effective 19th-century archaism, yet steely in sustaining the story, the prose is as poetic as it is violent.". From Wordnik.com. [Canaan's Tongue by John Wray: Book summary] Reference
Frank Persol #244: "what does the word prose mean?". From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again] Reference
The actual prose is better than I remembered, though. From Wordnik.com. [there is a crack in everything. that's how the light gets in.] Reference
Speculum Christiani (in Latin prose and English verse). From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance] Reference
In plain English prose, I went this morning to breakfast at. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference
A sound training in English prose composition and versification. From Wordnik.com. [Mankind in the Making] Reference
He wrote mostly in English prose; but other modes were not infrequent. From Wordnik.com. [Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story] Reference
The very oldest book in English prose, however, is the account given by. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
The first chronicle in German prose, the "Sachsenchronik," was written by. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Alsatian, and Thuringian Chronicles, which are sometimes termed prose epics. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Epic] Reference
For the benefit of younger readers, I subjoin short prose versions of two of the. From Wordnik.com. [Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country] Reference
The ending was somehow both surprising and expected, and the prose is beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [CHASING GHOSTS IN BLACK HOLES • by Ryan Fowler] Reference
Elia's style is the only thing in English prose that can be called absolutely perfect. From Wordnik.com. [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference
I have some curious specimens of ancient oaths, some in Latin prose, others in poetry. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827] Reference
Hamlet in plain English prose, which the criticks have now to seek in Saxo Grammaticus. From Wordnik.com. [Preface to Shakespeare] Reference
Another sneers at the neo-Atticism which had become the fashion in Greek prose writing. From Wordnik.com. [Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology] Reference
The whole passage, one of the finest in English prose, is marked by the heat of emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature] Reference
Three nouns in a row used to be the outer limit and is a rare find in English prose before 1950. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4] Reference
They need a course of study in English prose more than anyone else, and they would profit by the effort. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece] Reference
I replied in Latin prose that I did not care about seeing her mother, telling her my reasons with great plainness. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
It is the first great book in English prose of secular interest; the first book which can claim a place beside the. From Wordnik.com. [Bacon] Reference
Yet it is not a mere Hebraism; but finds its place in classical Greek poetry, and indeed in Greek prose as well; thus. From Wordnik.com. [Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.] Reference
For the very first time in English prose fiction every character is alive, every incident is capable of having happened. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Andrews Vol 1] Reference
The poet also addressed an epistle in Latin prose to Bishop Liutbert of Mainz to gain official approbation for his work. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
These tales are so popular that they have been translated into every civilized language and are often termed prose epics. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Epic] Reference
In the next century, Abstemius wrote two hundred fables in Latin prose, partly of modern, but chiefly of ancient invention. From Wordnik.com. [Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes] Reference
With the discontinuance of the Peterborough annals, English history written in English prose ceased for three hundred years. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
Greek, but later the Romans learned how to write in Latin prose and poetry as good as much that had been written by the Greeks. From Wordnik.com. [Introductory American History] Reference
Her prose is code, she talks only in code; and the heart of her unbelievable story is a kind of code dance with insider Lewis Libby. From Wordnik.com. [Jay Rosen: Thanks for the Link, New York Times. Now Please Answer My Question.] Reference
One of the first universal histories in German prose, it includes also a territorial history of Alsace and a local history of Strasburg. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
English Text Society, 1872, 8vo; pp. 26 ff., a translation in English prose of the thirteenth century of some of the sermons of Maurice de. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
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