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ADVERBS
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With this last compare:
III, 179, The very soul of freedom scanned
Far off, sought out in darkling quest . . .
Ill, 208, England, queen of the waves whose green inviolate
girdle enrings thee round . . .
On the other hand, the use of (archaic) simple verbs
for compound ones is exemplified over and over again,
though there are few very striking cases. Snared occurs
for ensnared (II, 15) whelm for overwhelm (II, 273), circle
for encircle (III, 99), wakes for awakes (III, 190), shamed for
ashamed (IV, 83) etc. More interesting, perhaps, are the
following cases.
III, 17, A holier aureole rounds your memories . . .
[surrounds]
63, ... the graven lintels of the gate . . .
[engraven]
260, Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself . . .
[begotten]
IV, 20S, Alive I may not scape . . .
[escape]
213, ... that spear there shrined apart
[enshrined]
331, And minished all that godlike muscle and might . . .
[diminished]
395, And the meadows are cumbered with shipwreck of
chariots that founder on land . . .
[encumbered].
VI, 133, ... as in all things fair that fall . . .
[befall].
Biblical and Shakespearean parallels may be cited for
all these.
(d). Swinburne does not make any use of that flexibility
of English words which allows the formation of verbs
from substantive stems. The few cases of such a use
that are found all agree with the modern language, and
are all found in dictionaries. As has been said already, he
is no friend of the expression that goes straight to the
point: he prefers the more circuitous one.
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