[103] E.g. ll. 766 foll., 828 foll., 881 foll.
[104] Cp. also ll. 126 foll.; 711 foll.
[105] Cp. also the respective versions of “Autumn,” ll. 748 and 962.
[106] Cp. also “Summer,” ll. 353, 376, 648; “Autumn,” ll. 349, 894-895.
[107] Cp. “Milton,” Raleigh, op. cit., pp. 252-3.
[108] One of the most noteworthy is the constant employment of adjectives as adverbs in opposition (e.g., “the grand etherial bow, Shoots up immense”) a device used both by Milton and Pope, but by neither with anything like the freedom seen in “The Seasons.”
[109] Cf. [Chapter VI, infra.]
[110] In the “Essay Supplementary to the Preface,” Hutchinson, op. cit., p. 949.
[111] That Young’s readers and even his editors were occasionally puzzled is seen by the history of the term “concertion.” This was the spelling of the first and most of the subsequent editions, including that of 1787, where the Glossary explains it as meaning “contrivance.” But some editions (e.g. 1751) have “consertion,” and some, according to Richardson (“New Dictionary,” 1836), have “conception.”
[112] Armstrong’s “gelid cistern” for “cold bath” has perhaps gained the honour of an unidentified quotation.