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.