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SUBSTANTIVES — COMPOSITION 79
IV, 332, We have for all our good things . . . curses, cares,
Sea-leaguer and land-shipwreck . . .
364, Old men, grey borderers on the march of death,
Tongue-fighters, tough of talk and sinewy speech . . .
V, 56, ... And priest-polluted by such prayer
As poisons air,
Tongue-worship of the tongue that slays.
212, She that turned Spain’s ships to cloudwrack at the
blasting of her breath ... .
The motives of these formations are treated in the
next division.
1 (c). Substantives with substantives: the words have
a coordinate relation to each other.
[type: soldier-priest].
I have found one instance out of many that very aptly
illustrates the origin of a number of instances of this class.
V, 65, ... Here in Shakespeare’s vision, a flower of her kin
forsaken,
Lay in her golden raiment alone on the wild wave’s edge
Surely by no shore else but here on the bank
storm-shaken,
Perdita, bright as a dew-drop engilt of the sun on the
sedge . . .
And over the babe-flower gently the head of a pastoral
elder
Bowed compassionate, hoar as the hawthorn-blossom
in spring . . .
Leaving the analogy with baby-bird etc. out of the
question, we can here follow the ’confluence’ of the two
ideas to the single word in a way that is very seldom
afforded.
In a similar way we must, of course, explain most of
these formations. I think, however, that I am able to show
one more source of formations of this type. If we compare
the following cases, the correspondence of sounds between
the two constituent parts of the compound can not fail to
attract our attention.
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