1. "No jealousy their dawn of love o'ercast,
Nor blasted were their wedded days with strife."
—Beattie.
2. "No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets."
—W. Allen's Gram.
3. "Thy chain a wretched weight shall prove."
—Langhorne.
4. "Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar."
—Thomson.
5. "That purple grows the primrose pale."
—Langhorne.
VII. They more frequently place ADJECTIVES after their nouns, than do prose writers; as,
1. "Or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand,
Show'rs on her kings barbaric, pearl and gold."
—Milton, P. L., B. ii, l. 2.
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,