[90] _Vide_ “Elizabethan Critical Essays,” ed. Smith, Vol. I, Intro., pp. lv foll. [91] Both the Fletchers also used many other latinized forms found before their time, and which in some cases they probably took direct from Spenser. [92] E.g. by Courthope, “History of English Poetry” (1910), Vol. III, p. 339, where a list is given (“only a few of the examples”) of Milton’s “coinages” and “creations.” Of this list only some half dozen (according to the N.E.D.) owe their first literary appearance to Milton. [93] E.g. _debel_, _disglorified_, _conglobe_, _illaudable_, etc., date from the sixteenth century; _Battailous_ goes back to Wycliff (N.E.D.). [94] Cf.“Milton,” by Walter Raleigh (1915), pp. 247 foll. [95] _Vide_ Masson, “Milton’s Poetical Works,” Vol. III, pp. 77-78 (1890-). [96] Similarly the “Virgil” translation has, e.g., _in a round error_ for “wandering round and round,” etc. [97] That it could easily become absurd was not unperceived in the eighteenth century. Vide Leonard Welsted: “Epistle to Mr. Pope,” May, 1730 (“Works in Verse and Prose,” London, 1787, p. 141). [98] _Vide_ “Poems of Anne, Countess of Winchilsea,” ed. Myra Reynolds, pp. 210-213 (Chicago, 1903). [99] _Vide_ “Complete Poetical Works,” edited J. L. Robertson (Oxford, 1908), which includes a variorum edition of “The Seasons.” [100] “Poetical Epistle to Mr. Thomson on the First Edition of his ‘Seasons’” (P.G.B., Vol. VIII, p. 504). [101] “Letter to Mallett,” August 11, 1726. [102] Cp. Morel, _op. cit._, pp. 419-424. [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. [113] _Vacant_ in the oft-quoted line from “The Deserted Village” (“The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind”), where the word is used in its Latin sense of “free from care.”