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(1910) [MARC] Author: Frank Heller
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PREPOSITIONS — CONJUNCTIONS 49

IV, 36, ... lips where//? lie hath no power . . .

86, And Iseult worn with watch, long held on pain

Sometimes, the motive may be supposed to have been
a desire of deepening the strength of another word:

IV, 45, ... and his heart

Yearned on her . . .

81, As a cloud shuddering dies into the sun.

Yearn on, however, is found in the Bible and so
might form a connecting link between these two motives.

§ 9. Conjunctions.

Here also the scope of my work does not include
an exhaustive freatment of the subject: I shall have to
content myself with some general remarks on the archaic use
of conjunctions.

That is not unfrequently used where modern
English demands a causal conjunction [cf. Franz, § 400],

I, 42, You would praise me at least that my soul all through
Clove to you . . .

IV, 54, [she] Who loved me that I brought her to her doom.

From the grammar of Elizabethan literature Swinburne
also borrowed the use of as for as if, though this a rare
feature of his language.

III, 128, ... a shrill-winged sound comes flying

North, as of wild souls crying . . .

Or as the old year’s heart, stricken . . .

Broke, breaking with the sea.

The following instance shows a probably archaic
change of construction.

IV, 85, Far as God sunders earth from heaven above,

So far was my love born beneath his love . . .

Archaically Swinburne also uses so for if (only).

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