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Updated: May 11, 2025
Sometimes it came when I read a book of philosophy; or listened on a still, hot Sunday to a dull preacher they were mostly dull prosing away to a sleepy, fashionable congregation about Daniel in the lions' den, or some other equally remote matter; or when I walked in crowded thoroughfares; or when I heard some great politician out of office out in the cold, like a miserable working-man with no work to do hurling anathemas at an iniquitous government; and sometimes also when I lay awake in the silent watches of the night.
She never reflected on the true nature of religion, though she sometimes went to church, repeated the prayers, without being conscious of their spirit; and when the coughing, sneezing, and blowing of noses which commonly accompany the text subsided, she generally called up the remembrance of the last ball, or an anticipation of the next assembly, to amuse herself until the prosing business was over.
That is why it is better for men of extremely opposite opinions not to meet. I dare say Radicalism has a function, and so long as it respects the laws I am ready to encounter it where it cannot be avoided. Pardon my prosing. 'Recommend me some hard books to study through the Winter, said Cecilia, refreshed by a discourse that touched no emotions, as by a febrifuge. Could Nevil reply to it?
Next morning, and whilst I was prosing over my breakfast, in walked a midshipman, about twenty years of age, with a face which appeared to have been rolled down Deal beach a dozen times. “Waiter,” said he, “have you in the house a young officer lately arrived from Lunnen?” “Ho, ho!” thinks I, “my boy, you are from my country the West, and probably from where it rains upon Dock nine months in the twelve.” “Yes, sir,” said the waiter, “the young officer is eating his breakfastesses;” saying this he brought him to my box. “Good morning, sir,” said he, “I have come on shore to take you on board.
"If the future life is so weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable as we might infer from these readings, one would have reason to deplore an immortality from which no suicide could give an outlet. To be condemned to such eternal prosing would be worse than annihilation. "Is there, then, no satisfaction for this craving of the soul?
I have agreed to preside, a situation in which I have been rather felicitous, not by much superiority of wit or wisdom, far less of eloquence; but by two or three simple rules which I put down here for the benefit of posterity. 1st. Always hurry the bottle round for five or six rounds without prosing yourself or permitting others to prose.
A fifer plays a shrill accompaniment to a drummer's song, a strain of light love and bloody war, with a chorus thundered forth by twenty voices. Meantime, a veteran in the corner is prosing about Dettingen and Fontenoy, and relates camp- traditions of Marlborough's battles, till his pipe, having been roguishly charged with gunpowder, makes a terrible explosion under his nose.
The fifth act opens with Sciolto's elaborate preparations for vengeance on his daughter. The stage directions for this scene are, Calista is discovered on a couch, in black, her hair hanging loose and disordered. She takes the book from the table, but, finding it the pious prosing of some "lazy, dull, luxurious gownsman," flings it aside.
That is why it is better for men of extremely opposite opinions not to meet. I dare say Radicalism has a function, and so long as it respects the laws I am ready to encounter it where it cannot be avoided. Pardon my prosing. 'Recommend me some hard books to study through the Winter, said Cecilia, refreshed by a discourse that touched no emotions, as by a febrifuge. Could Nevil reply to it?
the sternest faces relaxed, the sourest personages could not but laugh. Brave and honest fop! Where are you to-day, mon garcon! I wish I could see you and hear you sing again! But I am prosing. Riding beside Tom, I was looking down and thinking of a certain young lady, when an exclamation from my companion made me raise my head. "By George! there's the house, old fellow!" "The house?"
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