You think all this very unpoetic, Mary, and you are shocked at my interest in these prosaic and lowly details.
Or see again this prosaic passage from "The Brothers," as first published in the "Lyrical Ballads.
Let us now examine some of those curiously prosaicpassages which Wordsworth strove faithfully to convert into poetry, and strove with various success.
We need not hold with some of his critics that Wordsworth had in any peculiar sense a dual nature, to explain the amount of prosaic poetry, if I may call it so, that he wrote.
One cause of his prosaic verse, however, may be mentioned here.
I have only been in the country since Saturday night, and my activities at The Times office have been limited to the very prosaic duty of handing in several wads of 'copy' written aboard-ship.
The strange, lingering feeling which her presence had left upon him the night before was intensified here in the prosaic morning hour.
This eminently prosaic way of conceiving the marriage relation, is also, it would seem, eminently Greek; and it leads us to consider more particularly the opinion prevalent in Greece of the nature and duty of woman in general.
In looking over these poems I have not been unmindful of occasional prosaic lines and verbal infelicities, but at this late day I have neither strength nor patience to undertake their correction.
There is a poetical side to the commonplace of his incomings and outgoings; study him well, and you may frame an idyl of some sort from his apparently prosaic existence.
On the surface, everything about us just now looks prosaic and mechanical; you see only a sort of bark-mill grinding over of the same dull, monotonous grist of daily trifles.
But there are no dusky beauties now aboard these ships; and their freight is rations and other hum-drum prosaic things for our troops.
They are for the most part men who have abandoned at an early age the prosaic existence previously mapped out for them, and plunging into the wilds of Africa have found a more attractive livelihood in big game shooting and prospecting.
It was all prosaic effort, not rapt passivity, such as I had experienced half an hour before.
We personally deny this; but sailors, as a body, are such prosaic people, that they will make no allowance whatever for the least amplification of bald matter of fact.
The Borgo la Croce leads hence to the Porta alla Croce, in the very prosaic and modern Piazza Beccaria.
This Chronicle was merely a sanctimonious and prosaic version of the Songs of Roland and of Roncesvalles.
Yet some poets of the transition were hardy enough to attempt the Dantesque meter, and to pretend in a prosaic age that they had shared the vision of the prophets.
They were written at the most prosaic moment of the national development, by men who could not afford to substitute the true Italian poetry of irony and idyllic sensuousness for the ancient religious spirit.
It is not merely that they formed no epic, and gave birth to no great Saga; but they accepted the fabulous matter, transmitted to them from other nations, in a prosaic and positive spirit.
The very devil becomes a definite and oftentimes prosaic personage.
Such is the prosaic form which the Faust legend assumed in Italy.
It was a real instinct like that which pervades the poetry of Michelangelo, and which sustains some men even in our prosaic age.
The famous "Captains' Room" where the mariners used to gather and swap briny yarns is now used for the prosaic purposes of luncheon and for the auction sales of ships.
Prosaic people would say "melted snow water," but Hans Andersen would have known better than that.
A detailed account of its contents will be found in the valuable but prosaic Murray, and would here be superfluous.
But these prosaic recounts are only the record of actual steps.
Here recommenced for us the prosaic chapter of the railroad.
Meet, therefore, the theorist above ground, and on equal terms; and for the subterraneous proceeding, elect the society of swift and prosaic silence.
A good deal of our time here is spent in the prosaic but vital occupation of getting something to eat.
I find a record of my first visit only, and that couched in one prosaic phrase as follows: Exposition--valet, six francs.
Such unswerving and prosaic veracity did my friend possess, that, though sorely tempted as he must have been on many occasions, for ten years he never added a single ounce to the weight of his fish.
As soon might one expect two prosaic persons of slight acquaintanceship to abjure the topic at a chance meeting.
So she came, and her eager brightness shed a radiance over the most commonplace objects, and infected the most prosaic of the party, even a young lady of varied accomplishments, who distinguished herself later on.
To make the topography clearer a somewhat prosaic and domestic simile may be employed.
The phrase, however, was only admissible on the first occasion, and it was subsequently described by any who followed, in more prosaic terms, as going up one side and down the other.
Standing on the brink of the Grand Canyon, the prosaic search for causes and effects for a time at least must be laid aside, and give place to the emotions.
It is at such times that the picturesque and gorgeous, although desolate, landscape kindles the fancy and suggests day dreams which distract one's attention from the more prosaic study of these earth ruins.
It is this intense feeling for the sublime and beautiful in nature that the student of geography should strive to cultivate, as well as to acquire skill in reading the prosaic history written everywhere on the mountains.
He gave to the propaganda a relish which my prosaic economics altogether lacked.
Sometimes, in spite of copious advertising of the meeting, the prosaic nature of the objects had got abroad, and nobody met.
The more prosaic the actual causes, the more necessary is it to find glowingly sublime motives.
The activities that evoke and incorporate a war are no longer personal love, love of glory, or the soldier's love of his own privately amassed booty, but are of a collective, prosaic political and economic nature.
The aim of the discussion is not to subordinate knowing to some hard, prosaic utilitarian end.
The simplicity of the sentence is more effective than pages of prosaic argument.
Courtship and Marriage It will be astonishing to many, no doubt, to hear that courtship in Italy is a prosaic affair.
And, perhaps, if we thought a little more than we do of such a prosaic characteristic of His life as that, it might invest it with some more reality for us, besides teaching us other large and important lessons.
But Eden still exists whenever two young lovers set up housekeeping, even in prosaic New York; only our modern Eves wear jaunty little morning caps and fascinating wrappers and slippers, with coquettish butterfly bows.
But the mystery surrounding Ida would have tinged the devotion of the most prosaic lover with an unusual sentiment of awe.
It is strange what prosaic lines men thrust in amid the poetry of nature.
