The arbiters of this terraqueous swamp.
There is still freer use of latinisms in the “Homer”:[116] her eyes caerulean, the point innocuous, piercing accents stridulous, the triturated barley, candent lightnings, the inherent barb, his stream vortiginous, besides such passages as
nor did the Muses spare to add
Responsive melody of vocal sweets.
The instances given above fully illustrate on the whole the use of a latinized diction in eighteenth century poetry.[117] It must not, however, be supposed that the fashion was altogether confined to the blank verse poems. Thus Matthew Prior in “Alma,” or “The Progress of the Mind,” has passages like
the word obscene
Or harsh which once elanced must ever fly
Irrevocable,
whilst Richard Savage in his “Wanderer” indulges in such flights as