With regard to the first, the Latin element, which is so manifest in his prose works, largely predominates in his poems, but accords better with the poetic license.

In a list of authors which Mr.Marsh has prepared, down to Milton's time, which includes an analysis of the sixth book of the _Paradise Lost_, he is found to employ only eighty per cent.

of Anglo-Saxon words--less than any up to that day.

But his words are chosen with a delicacy of taste and ear which astonishes and delights; his works are full of an adaptive harmony, the suiting of sound to sense.

His rhythm is perfect.