There are some two score of compound formations in the poems of Collins, but many of these—as “_love-darting_” (“Poetic Character,” 8), “_soul-subduing_” (“Liberty,” 92)—date from the seventeenth century. One felicitous compound Collins has borrowed from James Thomson, but in doing so he has invested it with a new and beautiful suggestiveness. Thomson had written of Ships _dim-discovered_ dropping from the clouds. (“Summer,” 946) The compound is taken by Collins and given a new beauty in his description of the landscape as the evening shadows gently settle upon it: Hamlets brown and _dim-discovered_ spires (“Evening,” 37) where the poetic and pictorial force of the epithet is perhaps at its maximum.[174] Collins, however, has not contented himself with compounds already in the language; he has formed himself, apparently, almost half of the examples to be found in his poems. His instances of Types I, as of Types V and VI, are commonplace, and he has but few examples of Type II, the most noteworthy being “_scene-full_ world” (“Manners,” 78), where the epithet, irregularly formed, seems to have the meaning of “abounding in scenery.” Most of his instances of Type III are either to be found in previous writers, or are obvious formations like “_war-denouncing_ trumpets” (“Passions,” 43). Much more originality is evident in his examples of Type IV, which is apparently a favourite method with him. He has “_moss-crowned_ fountain” (“Oriental Ecl.,” II, 24), “_sky-worn_ robes” (“Pity,” II), “_sedge-crowned_ sisters” (“Ode on Thomson,” 30), “_elf-shot_ arrows” (“Popular Superstitions,” 27), etc. Some instances here are, strictly speaking, irregular formations, for the participles, as in “_sphere-descended_,” are from intransitive verbs; in other instances the logical relation must be expressed by a preposition such, as “_with_” in “_moss-crowned_,” “_sedge-crowned_”; or “_by_” in “_fancy-blest_,” “_elf-shot_”; or “_in_” in “_sphere-found_,” “_sky-worn_.” He has some half-dozen examples of Type VII, three at least of which—“_gay-motleyed_ pinks” (“Oriental Eclogues,” III, 17), “_chaste-eyed_ Queen” (“Passions,” 75), and “_fiery-tressed_ Dane” (“Liberty,” 97)—are apparently his own coinage, whilst others, such as “_rosy-lipp’d_ health” (“Evening,” 50) and “_young-eyed_ wit,” have been happily used in the service of the personifications that play so great a part in his Odes.