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(1910) [MARC] Author: Frank Heller
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VOCABULARY

The last instance occurs in a parody of Browning in
«Heptalogia». — With half-thoughts we may logically couple

I, 256, . . . the smooth semi-tones.

I have only noted one case of composition of a verb
and a substantive, the archaic pick-purses, which occurs in

I, 243, And haled her forth as men hale pick-purses.

Adverbs now and then form connections of this class.

We find, with after:

II, 64, We thy latter sons, the men thine after-birtli.

Over occurs in the obsolete overfall, for waterfall (IV,
177), and in

IV, 289, But ye, keep ye on earth

Your lips from over-speech.

Finally, we find under in

V, 58, Steadfast as sorrow, fiery-sad, and sweet

With underthoughts of love . . .

Here I also place a composition of an ordinal and
a noun:

IV, 341, Hallowing her fame with flower of third-year feasts.

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As may be seen from this survey, the compounds of
the substantive greatly surpass its derivations in number,
and yet they afford no very great material for treatment. The
bulk of new formations in Swinburne is found in the
department of adjectival words, still to a less extent in that
of pure adjectives, to which I now pass on.

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