6. K. John.

Blanch.

7. Cons.

8. Pand.

9. Bast.

Let Kings assemble; for my grief's so great,
That no supporter but the huge firm Earth,
Can hold it up; here I and sorrow sit;

Here is my throne, bid Kings come bow to it."
What constitutes the "state" of her "great grief?"
Sketch the character of Shakespeare's Constance.

"Thou canst not, cardinal, devise a name

So slight, unworthy, and ridiculous,

To charge me to an answer as the pope."

What does the poet aim at here, or is the sentiment in
place only as coming from King John?

"The lady Constance speaks not from her faith,
But from her need."

"O if thou grant my need,

Which only lives but by the death of faith,
That need must needs infer this principle,-
That faith would live again by death of need.”
"The better act of purposes mistook
Is to mistake again: though indirect,

Yet indirection thereby grows direct,

And falsehood, falsehood cures."

And say in what other play Shakespeare enforces the same argument.

"Now, by my life, this day grows wonderous hot;

Some airy devil hovers in the sky;

And pours down mischiefs."

From what superstition is this borrowed?

Where does Milton speak of these Demons?

Where does Shakespeare use "under fiends," and in which of his plays does he introduce airy spirits?

10. K. John. "Come hither, Hubert. O, my gentle Hubert, We owe thee much;

Give me thy hand. I had a thing to say,

But I will fit it with some better time; &c."

Explain fully why John defers saying what he had to say.

11. K. Phi

12. Const.

13. K. John.

14. K. John.

15. Bast.

"So, by a roaring tempest, on the flood,
A whole armado of convicted sail

Is scattered and disjoin'd from fellowship."

What historical fact is alluded to here?

What are "whole armado-;" "flood"; "roaring tempest"; respectively compared to?

"He talks to me that never had a son."

What, according to Shakespeare, is necessary to sympathy?
Quote passages which are parallel to these, from others of
his plays.

"Why do you bend such solemn brows on me?
Think you, I bear the shears of destiny?"

In whose hands does Milton place these "shears" in
one of his minor poems?

Whether is Shakespeare or Milton true to the Greek
fable?

"Our discontented counties do revolt;
Our people quarrel with obedience;
Swearing allegiance, and the love of soul
To stranger blood, to foreign royalty.
This inundation of mistemper'd humour

Rests by you only to be qualified.

Then pause not; for the present time's so sick,

That present medicine must be minister'd,

Or overthrow incurable ensues.'

And say how "this inundation of mistemper'd humour"

is elsewhere, in this play, described?

What are "counties" used for, and where else does the word occur in the same sense?

"If thou didst but consent

To this most cruel act, do but despair;

And if thou want'st a cord, the smallest thread

That ever spider twisted from her womb

Will serve to strangle thee."

Explain clearly how the "smallest thread would serve," &c.

What favourite theory of Shakespeare's is implied in the passage? 16. Is there reason to believe that Shakespeare's Elinor is implicated in the murder of Arthur?

17. Bast.

"Shall a beardless boy,

A cocker'd silken wanton, brave our fields,
And flesh his spirit, in a warlike soil,

Mocking the air with colours idly spread."

Explain the meaning of this; and say into what poem the last line,

with slight alteration, is introduced.

What poet has" silken son of dalliance?”

18. Bast. "Now, now, you stars, that move in your right spheres,
Where be your powers?"

To whom does the Bastard figuratively address himself?
Explain"the right motion" of the stars, according to the philoso-
phy from which the figure is borrowed.

What art is alluded to in "where be your powers?" and what
science grew out of it?

19. In what significations are the following used; and point to places in our literature where they occur in the same senses?

"Toys;" "swing'd;" "scroyles;"

"Swart;" "prodigious;" "peised;"

"rounded in the ear;" "clip ;"

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"gracious;" "commodity;"

" utmost corner of the west;"

"scamble;" "rankness;" "scath."

ADDISON.

N. B.-Where no question is verbally proposed a clear explanation of the author's meaning, in the italicised passages, is required.

20. "There are others so excessively modest, that they deliver the character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelve month. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments and monuments which had no poets."

21. What is the difference, according to Addison, between true and

false humour?

22. What is meant in criticism by "poetical justice?"

Addison's opinion of the law.

23. In what terms does Addison speak of tragi-comedy?

Has opinion undergone any change since the time of Addison?

24. "He had not proceeded much further when he observed the thorns and briars to end, and give place to a thousand beautiful green trees covered with blossoms of the finest scents and colours, that formed a wilderness of sweets, and were a kind of lining to those ragged scenes which he had before passed through."

Is there any "foreign infusion" in this?

25. According to Addison, what is the difference between true and false wit?

Whether is laughter necessary to wit, or to humour, or to both?
Dryden's definition of wit: and Addison's objection to it.

26. The quality of the following;

(a)

(b)

(c)

"To rouse him from lethargic dump

He tweak'd his nose, with gentle thump

Knock'd on his breast, as if't had been
To raise the spirits lodg'd within."
"O'er tortur'd by that ghastly ride,

I felt the blackness come and go,

And strove to wake; but could not make

My senses climb up from below."

"The reason, Sancho, said his master, why thou feelest that pain all down thy back, is that the stick which gave it thee was of length to that extent."

27. Define acrostic,'' anagram,' 'pun,' ' rebus,' 'wings,' 'altars.'

28. Describe that style which Addison calls "the Gothic manner of writing."

Whether is it preferred by the learned, or the unlearned?

29. "This good-nature, however, in the constitution, which Mr. Dryden somewhere calls a milkiness of blood, is an admirable groundwork for the other."

What does Lady Macbeth call it?

What does Lord Bacon compare it to?

30. "The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, the wise, the good, or the great man very often lie hid, or concealed in a Plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred and brought to light."

Which of our Poets has clothed the same thought in verse?

31. "A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince the antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible. Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens, confounded their statesmen, struck their orators dumb, and at length argued them out of all their liberties."

32. Notice some of the most remarkable weaknesses, follies, and vices satirised by Addison in the Spectator.

JOHNSON'S VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES.

33. "Fate wings with every wish th' afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art; With fatal heat impetuous courage glows,

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With fatal sweetness elocution flows,

Impeachment stops the speaker's powerful breath,

And restless fire precipitates on death."

Explain clearly, without metaphor, the meaning of the italics, and

illustrate it by examples drawn from history.

"Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats,

And ask no questions but the price of votes ;
With weekly libels, and septennial ale,

Their wish is full to riot and to rail."

What tribes are alluded to? and why are they called "supple?"

What is patriot used for?

What questions should they ask?

Why "weekly" libels, and "septennial” ale?