An examination of Pope’s compounds in the light of “the received rules of composition,” shows his examples to be of the usual types. Of noun _plus_ noun combinations he has such forms as “_monarch-savage_,” (“Odyss.” IV), whilst he is credited with the first use of “the _fury-passions_” (Epistle III). More originality and imagination is reflected in his compound epithets; of those formed from a noun and a present participle, with the first element usually in an objective relation to the second, his instances include “_love-darting_-eyes” (“Unfortunate Lady”), as well as others found before his time, like the Elizabethan “_heart-piercing_ anguish” (_ibid._, XII) and “_laughter-loving_ dame” (_ibid._, III). He has large numbers of compounded nouns and past-participles, many of which—“_moss-grown_ domes” (“Eloisa”), “_cloud-topped_ hills” (“Essay on Man,” I, 100), “_Sea-girt_ isles” (“Iliad,” III)—were common in the seventeenth century, as well as “borrowed” examples, such as “_home-felt_ joys” (Epistle II) or “_air-bred_ people” (“Odyss.,” LX, 330), presumably from Milton and Drayton respectively. But he has a few original formations of this type, such as “_heaven-directed_ spire” (Epistle III), “_osier-fringed_ bank,” (“Odyss.,” XIII), the latter perhaps a reminiscence of Sabrina’s song in “Comus,” as well as happier combinations, of which the best examples are “_love-born_ confidence” (“Odyss.,” X) and “_love-dittied_ airs” (“Odyss.,” II). Pope, however, makes his largest use of that type of compound which can be formed with the greatest freedom—an adjective, or an adjective used adverbially, joined to a present or past participle. He has dozens of examples with the adverbial _long_, _wide_, _far_, _loud_, _deep_, _high_, etc., as the first element, most of the examples occurring in the Homer translations, and being attempts to reproduce the Greek compounds.[170] Other instances have a higher æsthetic value: “_fresh-blooming_ hope” (“Eloisa”), “_silver-quivering_ rills” (Epistle IV), “_soft-trickling_ waters” “Iliad,” IX), “sweet airs _soft-circling_” (_ibid._, XVII), etc. Of the formations beginning with a true adverb, the most numerous are the quasi-compounds beginning with “_ever_”—“_ever-during_ nights,” “_ever-fragrant_ bowers” (“Odyss.,” XII), etc.; or “_well_”—“_well-sung_ woes” (“Eloisa”) or “_yet_”—“_yet-untasted_ food” (“Iliad,” XV), etc. These instances do not reveal any great originality, for the very ease with which they can be formed naturally discounts largely their poetic value. Occasionally, however, Pope has been more successful; perhaps his best examples of this type are “_inly-pining_ hate” (“Odyss.,” VI—where the condensation involved in the epithet does at least convey some impression of power—and “the _softly-stealing_ space of time,” (“Odyss.,” XV), where the compound almost produces a happy effect of personification.