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USE OF ARTICLES
•*.’• V.v
41
I, 20S, . . . dipping deep smooth pitchers of pure brass
Under the bubbled wells, till each round lip
Stooped with loose gurgle of waters incoming . . .
249, And with good speed for hardness of the air
Each man departed to his house again . . .
11, 63, . . . mix thy breath
With holier air of death . . .
120, But in weariest of years and obscurest
Doth it live not at heart of all things?
157, ... the leaves look up
For heat of helpful air . . .
III, 64, [she] Made king of all the world’s desire a slave . . .
IV, 42, They gave the new queen for her maids to tend
At dawn of bride-night . . .
(her bride-night|
98, ... Takes his strange rest at heart of slumberland.
Modern English, perhaps, would not have regarded
the article as obligatory in all these cases; but Swinburne’s
fondness for this possible omission is striking. Though
the first series of the Poems and Baliads» has not such a
preponderance of cases as might appear from the above
list of instances, the archaic tendency of which it is the
best exponent is doubtless the chief motive in these
omissions. — Other cases of omission may also be found, but
chiefly in conformity with the general rules of higher style:
I, 222, Sir, note this that I will say
That Lord who maketh corn with hay
And morrows each of yesterday
He hath you in his hand . . .
II, 255, Fly where Vesuvius reddens air . . .
V, 205, From smooth soft-sanded banks of Nile . . .
VI, 16, . . . far and wide
Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand ...
280, And the might and the light and the darkness of storm
were as storm in the heart of Ind.
Like the definite article, the indefinite is frequently
omitted where modern English expects it to be inserted.
I, 213, I blew ... to purge him to full god . . .
IV, 37, The love-draught that should be for flame
To burn out of them fear and faith and shame . . .
150, And where their limbs were laid in woful hour.
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