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VOCABULARY
the verbs of motion seem to prevail for some unknown
reason.
Finally a causal relation between the two parts of
the compound exists in some cases.
IV, 8, . . . Flares like an angered and storm-reddening moon ...
23, ... Pale as the breathless and star-quickening sky . . .
V, 104 ... Very death of very death, begun
When none knows — the knowledge is forbidden —
Self-begotten, self-proceeding, one.
With is here demanded in the first two cases; from
or through by the last one.
3. Adjectives not seldom form with present
participles compounds wherein the adjective becomes
equivalent to an adverb.
I have already alluded to the comparative prevalence of
these formations in vol II, the Hellenic dramas, and other
poems of classical colouring. Besides this foreign
influence, we find the influence of metrical motives: this was
distinguishable in the last group of compounds and is
most clearly displayed here. Nearly every word shows a
correspondence between its two parts.
«Poems and Ballads I» shows an increase in number
of cases.
I, 186, These see their mother what she is,
Glad-groxving, till August leave more bright
The apple-coloured cranberries . . .
[these = plants .
23S, . . . her face more fair
Than sudden-singing April in soft lands . . .
245, And all green flower of goodly-growing lands.
Both the last examples are quoted from the legend
St. Dorothy, which abounds in mannerisms.
Grow forms two other compounds, both to be found
in vol II. In both cases the adjective is the same, but the
change of meaning is obvious.
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