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CONCLUDING REMARKS
the department of nouns, Swinburne can only claim some
20 really new formations and cases of a peculiar use. The
proportion becomes more advantageous to him in the
department of adjectives, but sinks once more in that of verbs.
After all, the bulk of his formations will be found in the
field of compounds, especially participle compounds.
Philo-logically, these give a rich material for treatment; but in
my opinion they will not be able to lower the scale in
Swinburne’s favour. For here we meet the first objection
again. All that sphere of ideas and interests where these
formations move, is so remote from common life that they
convs yjhe* impression of a foreign flora transplanted under
the foggy heavens of England, and destined to pine away
theVe. Formations like those of Kipling or the daily
papers seem to broaden the domain of English prose; and
in the same way the creations of Tennyson, and perhaps
Browning, have enlarged the domain of English poetical
language; but the new territories won by the hand of
Swinburne to the English mother tongue he loved so well, will
never become such populous provinces.
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