James Beattie has a large number of compounds in his poems, and though many of these are mechanical formations, he has a few new “nature” epithets which are real additions to the vocabulary of poetical description, as “_sky-mixed_ mountain” (“Ode to Peace,” 38), the lake “_dim-gleaming_” (“Minstrel,” 176), “the _wide-weltering_ waves” (_ibid._, 481), the wave “_loose-glimmering_” (“Judgment of Paris,” 458). He has also a few instances of Type VII chiefly utilized, as often with compounds of this type, as personifying epithets: “the frolic moments _purple_-pinioned” (“Judgment of Paris,” 465) and “_loose-robed_ Quiet” (“Triumph of Melancholy,” 64). The “Pleasures of Memory” (1792) by Samuel Rogers has one or two compound formations: “_moonlight-chequered_ shade” (Part II). Hope’s “_summer-visions_” (_ibid._) and “the _fairy-haunts_ of long-lost hours” (_ibid.)_, have a trace at least of that suggestive power with which Keats and Shelley were soon to endow their epithets. Brief reference only need be made to the works of Erasmus Darwin, which have already been mentioned as the great example of eighteenth century stock diction used to the utmost possible extent. He has plenty of instances of compound epithets of every type, but his favourite formation appears to be that of a noun _plus_ part-participle, as “_sun-illumined_ fane” (“Botanic Garden,” I, 157), “_wave-worn_ channels” (_ibid._, I, 362), and as seen in such lines as Her _shell-wrack_ gardens and her _sea-fan_ bowers. (“Economy of Vegetation,” VI, 82) Many of Darwin’s compounds have a certain charm of their own; in the mass they contribute towards that dazzling splendour with which eighteenth century diction here blazed out before it finally disappeared. Cowper, like Blake and Crabbe, is not especially distinguished for his compound epithets. Though he has a large number of such formations, very few of them are either new or striking, a remark which applies equally to his original work and his translations. Many instances of all the types are to be found in the “Homer,” but scarcely one that calls for special mention, though here and there we come across good epithets well applied: “accents _ardour-winged_” (IV, 239) or “_silver-eddied_ Peneus” (II, 294).