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SYNTAX
There is, however, in Swinburne a tendency towards
the exact opposite of this. Not infrequently we find the
article in cases where the modern language has long since
forgotten its use. The following cases have all a perfectly
general sense; still we find:
I, 189, But as the days change men change too;
230, ... in the spent years
Whose raiment is the dust and death . . .
231, Not all the pure clean-coloured sea
Could cleanse and cooi my yearning veins . . .
Nor washing of the dews and rains . . .
274, And all her gracious words
As water-grass to herds
In the June-days . . .
II, 54, Fairer than life or than youth
Is this to die for the truth . . .
232, Pinions . . . whereto the light and darkness cling . . .
III, 117, ... As if the May-time
Were here to sing.
In all these cases the makes a ’general’ into a
universal statement.
Personifications, as is well-known, do not generally
take the article. Still we find in the poem In San Lorenzo:
II, 172, Is thine hour come to wake, O slumbering Night?
Hath not the Dawn a message in thine ear?
Probably, however, this contains an allusion to the
two famous statues of Michael Angelo. [last line: But will
not yet thine Angel bid thee wake?]
§ 3. Substantives.
Apart from their position in the clause, substantives
afford very few things of any interest. On the role played
by genitives I have already had occasion to speak, and
some more peculiarities will be found in the Sematology.
It might be mentioned that once (in «Atalanta*) Swin-
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