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SWINBURNE’S ACCIDENCE.
(i) General Remarks. On the whole, every part
of Swinburne’s grammar shows a strong tendency towards
archaisation; and just as he regarded the time of Elizabeth
as the heroic time of his country, so he regarded the
language of that age as the ’heroic’ one of English verse.
This we shall find proved over and over again when we
arrive at his syntactical treatment of English; but it is
also to be seen very clearly in his accidence. It must be
stated at once that, while his choice of subjects and images
has a strong foreign taste, his language, with the
exception of his sentence-structure, has far less of it.
In the chapter on Swinburne’s syntax I have made a
division into cases characteristic by reason of their
frequency alone, and things completely revived or created by
Swinburne. In this present chapter, however, I have not
seen any reason for this, as the divergencies noted are
not very numerous.
(ii) The Articles.
Some cases of an being used in front of an aspirate
h are the only divergencies from general use. We find,
for instance,
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