My objection to the dramatic profession on the score of its uselessness, in this letter, reminds me of what my mother used to tell me of Miss Brunton, who afterward became Lady Craven; a very eccentric as well as attractive and charming woman, who contrived, too, to be a very charming actress, in spite of a Prosaical dislike to her business, which used to take the peculiar and rather alarming turn of suddenly, in the midst of a scene, saying aside to her fellow-actors, What nonsense all this is!
"Records of a Girlhood"
Frances Ann Kemble
Lucid, but ambiguous; pathetic, but amusing; poetical, but comprehensive; Prosaical, but full of emphasis.
"Autobiography of a Pocket-Hankerchief"
James Fenimore Cooper
Homer's prose essay on the gun-powder-plot, is reckoned by all critics inferior to the Iliad; and Warburton's rhyming satire on the methodists is allowed by all to be superior to his Prosaical notes on Pope's works.
"Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica"
James Boswell