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But the classification is a crass one, and the English language unfortunately does not possess words to express the distinctions, while the ambiguous associations of the word "prose" increase the difficulty of inventing them. We do not even possess any equivalent of the French "prosateur," though I see no reason why "prosator" should not be used.
The Doric qualities of his work are becoming recognized also, and he is being read, as he has always been read by his true disciples so not inappropriately to name those who have come under his graver spell not merely as a prosateur of purple patches, or a sophist of honeyed counsels tragically easy to misapply, but as an artist of the interpretative imagination of rare insight and magic, a writer of deep humanity as well as aesthetic beauty, and the teacher of a way of life at once ennobling and exquisite.
He is, in short, the vigorous, racy prosateur of that human comedy of which Mr. Abbey is the poet.
"To the hero of the day," he said, "to the young poet who combines the gift of the prosateur with the charm and poetic faculty of Petrarch in that sonnet-form which Boileau declares to be so difficult." Cheers. The colonel rose next. "Gentlemen, to the Royalist! for the hero of this evening had the courage to fight for sound principles!" "Bravo!" cried the prefect, leading the applause.
There is hardly any prose in Latin fit for boys to read. Cicero is diffuse, and often affords little more than small-talk on abstract topics; Tacitus a brilliant but affected prosateur, Caesar a dull and uninspiring author. But to many boys the path to literary appreciation cannot lie through Latin, or even Greek, because the old language hangs like a veil between them and the thought within.
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