1. “Near and more near the billows rise.”
        —­Merrick.

2. “Wide and wider spreads the vale.”
        —­Dyer’s Grongar Hill.

3. “Wide and more wide, the overflowings of the mind
    Take every creature in, of every kind.”
        —­Pope.

4. “Thick and more thick the black blockade extends,
    A hundred head of Aristotle’s friends.”
        —­Id., Dunciad.

XIII.  They form many adjectives in y, which are not common in prose; as, The dimply flood,—­dusky veil,—­a gleamy ray,—­heapy harvests,—­moony shield,—­paly circlet,—­sheety lake,—­stilly lake,—­spiry temples,—­steely casque,—­steepy hill,—­towery height,—­vasty deep,—­writhy snake.

XIV.  They employ adjectives of an abbreviated form:  as, dread, for dreadful; drear, for dreary; ebon, for ebony; hoar, for hoary; lone, for lonely; scant, for scanty; slope, for sloping:  submiss, for submissive; vermil, for vermilion; yon, for yonder.

XV.  They employ several adjectives that are not used in prose, or are used but seldom; as, azure, blithe, boon, dank, darkling, darksome, doughty, dun, fell, rife, rapt, rueful, sear, sylvan, twain, wan.

XVI.  They employ the personal PRONOUNS, and introduce their nouns afterwards; as,

1. “It curl’d not Tweed alone, that breeze.”
        —­Sir W. Scott.

2.  “What may it be, the heavy sound
    That moans old Branksome’s turrets round?”
        —­Idem, Lay, p. 21.

3.  “Is it the lightning’s quivering glance,
      That on the thicket streams;
    Or do they flash on spear and lance,
      The sun’s retiring beams”
        —­Idem, L. of L., vi, 15.

XVII.  They use the forms of the second person singular oftener than do others; as,

1.  “Yet I had rather, if I were to chuse,
    Thy service in some graver subject use,
    Such as may make thee search thy coffers round,
    Before thou clothe my fancy in fit sound.”
        —­Milton’s Works, p. 133.

2.  “But thou, of temples old, or altars new,
    Standest alone—­with nothing like to thee.”
        —­Byron, Pilg., iv, 154.

3.  “Thou seest not all; but piecemeal thou must break,
    To separate contemplation, the great whole.”
        —­Id., ib., iv, 157.

4.  “Thou rightly deemst, fair youth, began the bard;
    The form then sawst was Virtue ever fair.”
        —­Pollok, C. of T., p. 16.

XVIII.  They sometimes omit relatives that are nominatives; (see Obs. 22, at p. 555;) as,