Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Thus it is that the beautiful fades gradually out of nature and life becomes dull and prosaic to dull and prosaic...
...opening story, "A Question of Medicine or Law," would be interesting if it were original, instead of being older than the hills. It may be asked also whether the familiar anecdote would not have been more pleasing to the reader in a more fanciful form, instead of in this prosaic garb. The conceit of the plot does not harmonize with the author's treatment...