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'Not when we're driving, ma'am, was the answer. THE MAN OF TWO MINDS faced his creatrix in the dressing-room, still delivering that most ponderous of sentences a smothering pillow! I have mistaken my vocation, thought Diana: I am certainly the flattest proser who ever penned a line.
He spoke most indignantly of the conduct of an English cutter that was in sight at the time. His nickname was “Old Proser.” The third was a gentlemanly person, but more the officer than practical sailor, fond of reading and drawing, and he frequently gave some of us instruction in the latter. He had been in the East India Service, and was a good navigator.
At least that was the way in our day, and I warrant our chicks of the present day crow to the same tune. Of all the friends that I have left I have none who has any decided attachment to literature. So either I must talk on that subject to young people in other words, turn proser, or I must turn tea-table talker and converse with ladies.
The atmosphere killed pretension and stifled shams. The pedant or the conceited person silently drifted away. How could it be otherwise, while a famous painter was describing some scene, or a noted philosopher illustrating some theory, or an acute statesman drawing some historical parallel, than that the egotist should drop himself, and the proser forget to prose?"
'Not when we're driving, ma'am, was the answer. THE MAN OF TWO MINDS faced his creatrix in the dressing-room, still delivering that most ponderous of sentences a smothering pillow! I have mistaken my vocation, thought Diana: I am certainly the flattest proser who ever penned a line.
Thence they take the further downward step into legend, and from that to superstition. How many metamorphoses between the elder Edda and the Nibelungen, between Arcturus and the "Idyls of the King"! Let a good, thorough-paced proser get hold of one of these stories, and he carefully desiccates them of whatever fancy may be left, till he has reduced them to the proper dryness of fact.
At this moment the clergyman entered the cottage. Mr. Blattergowl, though a dreadful proser, particularly on the subject of augmentations, localities, teinds, and overtures in that session of the General Assembly, to which, unfortunately for his auditors, he chanced one year to act as moderator, was nevertheless a good man, in the old Scottish presbyterian phrase, God-ward and man-ward.
Canon So-and-so," "Essays to do Good, by a Victim of Original Sin," "Poems by a Proser," "Political Economy, by a Bankrupt," and the like. We should know, at least, what we had to expect. We do not mean to apply this to Miss Terry; but her volume reminded us, by the association of opposites, of the title to which we have referred.
With women, the real talk is intime talk; the world of politics, books, men, facts, incidents, is merely a setting; and when they talk about them, it is merely to pass the time, as a man turns to a game. At Hapton, Musgrave chatted away about his neighbours, his boys' club, his new organ, his bishop, his work. I used to think him rather a proser; how I blessed his prosing now!
Lay your two heads together, and let me have to boast that the best and truest of our historians were my personal friends. Southey and Napier were most intimately so. Hallam is a dull proser no discovery or illustration, no profound thought, no vivid description, not even a harmonious period. Macaulay is a smart reviewer, indifferent to truth, a hanger-on of party.
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