2.  “Come, nymph demure, with mantle blue.”
        —­W.  Allen’s Gram., p. 189.

3.  “This truth sublime his simple sire had taught.”
        —­Beattie’s Minstrel, p. 14.

VIII.  They ascribe qualities to things to which they do not literally belong; as,

1.  “The ploughman homeward plods his weary way.”
        —­Gray’s Elegy, l. 3.

2.  “Or drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.”
        —­Ibidem, l. 8.

3.  “Imbitter’d more and more from peevish day to day.”
        —­Thomson.

4.  “All thin and naked, to the numb cold night.”
        —­Shakspeare.

IX.  They use concrete terms to express abstract qualities; (i. e., adjectives for nouns;) as,

1.  “Earth’s meanest son, all trembling, prostrate falls,
    And on the boundless of thy goodness calls.”
        —­Young.

2.  “Meanwhile, whate’er of beautiful or new,
    Sublime or dreadful, in earth, sea, or sky,
    By chance or search, was offer’d to his view,
    He scann’d with curious and romantic eye.”
        —­Beattie.

3.  “Won from the void and formless infinite.”
        —­Milton.

4.  “To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart
    Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.”
        —­Id., P. R., B. iii, l. 10.

X. They often substitute quality for manner; (i. e., adjectives for adverbs;) as,

1. ——­“The stately-sailing swan
   Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale,
   And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet,
   Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier isle.”
        —­Thomson.

2.  “Thither continual pilgrims crowded still.”
        —­Id., Cos. of Ind., i, 8.

3.  “Level at beauty, and at wit;
    The fairest mark is easiest hit.”
        —­Butler’s Hudibras.

XI.  They form new compound epithets, oftener than do prose writers; as,

1.  “In world-rejoicing state, it moves sublime.”
        —­Thomson.

2.  “The dewy-skirted clouds imbibe the sun.”
        —­Idem.

3.  “By brooks and groves in hollow-whispering gales.”
        —­Idem.

4.  “The violet of sky-woven vest.”
        —­Langhorne.

5.  “A league from Epidamnum had we sail’d,
    Before the always-wind-obeying deep
    Gave any tragic instance of our harm.”
        —­Shakspeare.

6. “’Blue-eyed, strange-voiced, sharp-beaked, ill-omened fowl,
    What art thou?’ ‘What I ought to be, an owl.’”
        —­Day’s Punctuation, p. 139.

XII.  They connect the comparative degree to the positive, before a verb; as,