4. "Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar."
--Thomson.
5. "That purple grows the primrose pale."
--Langhorne.
VII. They more frequently place ADJECTIVES after their nouns, than do prose writers; as,
1. "Or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand,
Show'rs on her kings barbaric, pearl and gold."
--Milton, P. L., B. ii, l. 2.
2. "Come, nymph demure, with mantle blue."
--W. Allen's Gram., p. 189.
3. "This truth sublime his simple sire had taught."
--Beattie's Minstrel, p. 14.
VIII. They ascribe qualities to things to which they do not literally belong; as,
1. "The ploughman homeward plods his weary way."
--Gray's Elegy, l. 3.
2. "Or drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds."
--Ibidem, l. 8.
3. "Imbitter'd more and more from peevish day to day."
--Thomson.
4. "All thin and naked, to the numb cold night."
--Shakspeare.
IX. They use concrete terms to express abstract qualities; (i. e., adjectives for nouns;) as,
1. "Earth's meanest son, all trembling, prostrate falls,
And on the boundless of thy goodness calls."
--Young.
2. "Meanwhile, whate'er of beautiful or new,
Sublime or dreadful, in earth, sea, or sky,
By chance or search, was offer'd to his view,
He scann'd with curious and romantic eye."
--Beattie.
3. "Won from the void and formless infinite."
--Milton.
4. "To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart
Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape."
--Id., P. R., B. iii, l. 10.
X. They often substitute quality for manner; (i. e., adjectives for adverbs;) as,
1. ----"The stately-sailing swan
Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale,
And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet,
Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier isle."
--Thomson.
2. "Thither continual pilgrims crowded still."
--Id., Cos. of Ind., i, 8.
3. "Level at beauty, and at wit;
The fairest mark is easiest hit."
--Butler's Hudibras.
XI. They form new compound epithets, oftener than do prose writers; as,
1. "In world-rejoicing state, it moves sublime."
--Thomson.
2. "The dewy-skirted clouds imbibe the sun."
--Idem.
3. "By brooks and groves in hollow-whispering gales."
--Idem.
4. "The violet of sky-woven vest."
--Langhorne.
5. "A league from Epidamnum had we sail'd,
Before the always-wind-obeying deep
Gave any tragic instance of our harm."
--Shakspeare.
6. "'Blue-eyed, strange-voiced, sharp-beaked, ill-omened fowl,
What art thou?' 'What I ought to be, an owl.'"
--Day's Punctuation, p. 139.
XII. They connect the comparative degree to the positive, before a verb; as,
1. "Near and more near the billows rise."
--Merrick.
2. "Wide and wider spreads the vale."
--Dyer's Grongar Hill.
3. "Wide and more wide, the overflowings of the mind
Take every creature in, of every kind."
--Pope.
4. "Thick and more thick the black blockade extends,
A hundred head of Aristotle's friends."
--Id., Dunciad.
XIII. They form many adjectives in y, which are not common in prose; as, The dimply flood,--dusky veil,--a gleamy ray,--heapy harvests,--moony shield,--paly circlet,--sheety lake,--stilly lake,--spiry temples,--steely casque,--steepy hill,--towery height,--vasty deep,--writhy snake.
XIV. They employ adjectives of an abbreviated form: as, dread, for dreadful; drear, for dreary; ebon, for ebony; hoar, for hoary; lone, for lonely; scant, for scanty; slope, for sloping: submiss, for submissive; vermil, for vermilion; yon, for yonder.
XV. They employ several adjectives that are not used in prose, or are used but seldom; as, azure, blithe, boon, dank, darkling, darksome, doughty, dun, fell, rife, rapt, rueful, sear, sylvan, twain, wan.
XVI. They employ the personal PRONOUNS, and introduce their nouns afterwards; as,
1. "It curl'd not Tweed alone, that breeze."
--Sir W. Scott.
2. "What may it be, the heavy sound
That moans old Branksome's turrets round?"
--Idem, Lay, p. 21.
3. "Is it the lightning's quivering glance,
That on the thicket streams;
Or do they flash on spear and lance,
The sun's retiring beams"
--Idem, L. of L., vi,15.
