He spent ten minutes trying to explain, without telling all of the truth, and he felt his good opinion of himself slipping from him before her inexorable disfavor.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
Prose translations of the epic, such as have in our own day attained some popularity, were in the eighteenth century regarded with especial disfavor.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Blank verse was in disfavor in the eighteenth century and was regarded as prose.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell