- Project Runeberg -  On the language of Swinburne's lyrics and epics /
105

(1910) [MARC] Author: Frank Heller
Table of Contents / Innehåll | << Previous | Next >>
  Project Runeberg | Catalog | Recent Changes | Donate | Comments? |   

Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Sidor ...

scanned image

<< prev. page << föreg. sida <<     >> nästa sida >> next page >>


Below is the raw OCR text from the above scanned image. Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan. Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!

This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.

PRESENT PARTICIPLES

105

does not allow any conclusions as to foreign influences.
On the other hand, no less than seven cases show
correspondence of sounds between the two parts of the
compound, which seems to indicate some metrical motive.

An adverbial phrase denoting space occurs in:

III, 310, Because thou hast kept in those world-wandering eyes

The light that makes the music of the skies . . .

IV, 282, Full of the land-wind and sea-travelling storms . . .

V, 95, Here the wise wave-wandering steadfast-hearted

Guest of many a lord of many a land . . .

204, Gave their water-wandering chariot-seats of ocean

Wings . . .

A transition to the next group is formed by the
following two cases, where time is treated as a kind of
spatial dimension, in the same way as by H. G. Wells.

II, 144, Mother of man’s time-travelling generations . . .

IV, 11, Wide as the stretch of life’s time-wandering wings . . .

Through is demanded in the last two cases; either
through or over in the first; over in the three next. It is
curious that the verb everywhere is travel or wander.

An adverbial phrase denoting time is the basis of the
following four cases: —

II, 14S, Each twilight-travelling bird that trills and screams

Sickens at midday . ..

154, These princelings with gauze winglets

That buzz in the air unfurled,

These summer-swarming kinglets . . .

III, 43, ... That I may sleep with the world’s eldest dead,

With her that died seven centuries since, and her

That went last night down the night-wandering way . . .

VI, 36, ... That heard not on the midnight-walking breeze

The wail that woke with evensong.

In expanding these compounds in may be used in
the first two examples; by in the last two; or at may be
used in the first, third and fourth examples. Here, too,

<< prev. page << föreg. sida <<     >> nästa sida >> next page >>


Project Runeberg, Tue Dec 12 01:39:05 2023 (aronsson) (download) << Previous Next >>
https://runeberg.org/swinburnes/0115.html

Valid HTML 4.0! All our files are DRM-free