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VOCABULARY
III, 129, . . . centuries dead and damned that reek below
Curse-consecrated .. .
296, A noise of songs and wind-enamoured wings . . .
The first case clearly demands to, the second of.
The parenthetical type is not very common. I have
found the following instances.
III, 302, . . . April that had borne his birth
From sunward on her sunniest shower-struck wing
With tears and laughter for the dew-dropt thing.
IV, 294, . . . but Meleager, but thy son,
Right in the wild way of the coming curse
Rock-rooted . . .
3S0, . . . the dream
That was thy sister; so shalt thou be too,
Thou but a vision, shadow-shaped of sleep.
VI, 187, ... her sail-stretched wings.
The first and the third instance might, of course, be
interpreted otherwise (dew-dropt — dew-sprinkled;
shadow-shaped = shadow-like), but probably they belong here *.
— This group is evidently the most literary and artificial
of all: the instances also belong to very ’classical’ works.
A. II. Composition of an adjective and a genuine
past participle
is no uncommon thing, though of course this class
of compounds never reaches the level of the preceding one.
The adjective, in these compounds, generally has the
value of an adverb or an adverbial phrase; sometimes the
full adjectival meaning may be preserved. In the following
case, for instance, it is evidently the complement of the
predicate.
V, 311, Sons born of many a loyal Muse to Ben,
All true-begotten, warm with wine or ale . . .
As to the form evil-eyed of IV, 291, it has already
* Observe, for instance, the punctuation of IV, 380.
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