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290 POETICAL CONSTRUCTIONS. [Par. 527-529.

(b) " (while) Alive, ridiculous; and (when) dead,
forgot(ten)." - POPE.
527 (c) "Hell
Grew darker at their frown, so matched they
stood. " - Paradise Lost, ii. 719.
(c) "Eve separate he spies,
Veil'd in a cloud of fragrance where she stood,
Half-spied - so thick the roses blushing round
About her glowed." -Ib. ix. 426.
That is, "or rather only half spied, because the roses,"
&c.

(c)

" Down he fell...
Reluctant, but in vain.... a greater power
Now ruled him." - lb. ix. 576.

528 HIence Poetry prefers the Participle Absolute to
a Conjunctional sentence, and occasionally even
places the Participle before its Noun:"An Iris sits.... and, unworn
Its steady dyes, while all around is torn
By the distracted waters, bears severe
Its brilliant hues." -- Childe HIarold.
52g The Epithet is substituted for the thing denoted.
Thus Milton uses "the dank " for " water;" "the
dry" for "land." This is both terse and "sensuous":(1) "Below the chestnuts, when their buds
Were glistening to the breezy blue."
TENNYSON.

(2)

" Neither keen
Nor solid might resist that edge."
Paradise Lost, vi. 323.