Of the irregular type of compound, already mentioned in connexion with Dryden, Pope has a few instances—“_white-robed_ innocence” (“Eloisa”), etc. But perhaps Pope’s happiest effort in this respect is to be seen in that quatrain from the fourth book of the “Dunciad,” containing three instances of compound epithets, which help to remind us that at times he had at his command a diction of higher suggestive and evocative power than the plain idiom of his satiric and didactic verse: To isles of fragrance, _lily-silver’d_ vales Diffusing languor in the panting gales; To lands of singing or of dancing slaves _Love-whisp’ring_ woods and _lute-resounding_ waves. Of the poets contemporary with Pope only brief mention need be made from our present point of view. The poems of Anne, Countess of Winchilsea contain few instances and those of the ordinary type, a remark which is equally applicable to the poems of Parnell and John Phillips. John Gay (1685-1732), however, though he has many formations found in previous writers, has also some apparently original compound epithets which have a certain charm: “_health-breathing_ breezes” (“A Devonshire Hill,” 10), “_dew-besprinkled_ lawn” (“Fables,” 50), and “the lark _high-poised_ in the air” (“Sweet William’s Farewell,” 13). More noteworthy is John Dyer; “Grongar Hill” has no very striking examples, but his blank verse poems have one or two not devoid of imaginative value: “_soft-whispering_ waters” (“Ruins of Rome”) and “_plaintive-echoing_ ruins” (_ibid._); he has been able to dispense with the “classical” descriptive terms for hills and mountains (“shaggy,” “horrid,” “terrible,” etc.), and his new epithets reflect something at least of that changing attitude towards natural scenery, of which he was a foremost pioneer: “_slow-climbing_ wilds” (“Fleece,” I), “_cloud-dividing_ hill” (_ibid._), and his irregular “_snow-nodding_ crags” (_ibid._, IV).