EXAMINATION PAPERS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 4, 4 January 1878, Page 2

EXAMINATION PAPERS.

[Three hours allowed for each paper.] Goldsmith's Traveller. 1. Give, within the compass of twenty lines, an account of the plan of this Poems. 2. (a) Describe the kind of verse in which " The Traveller " is composed. (b) Mark fche accented syllables in the following lines— "Hence every state to one lov'd blessing prone, Conforms and models life to that alone." 3. Write out the six couplets beginning — '" So blest a life- these thoughtless realms j display." •- ! 4. Give the meaning of the following words as used in the poem, quoting a line in which each occurs— l "port," 2 " prime," 3 "vernal," 4 "invest," 5 "sense," 6 "gestic," 7 "rampire," 8 "spray," 9 "baleful,'-' 10 "sedulous." 5. Explain the allusions in— (a) " With food as well the peasant is supplied ' On Idra's cliffs as Arno's shelvy side." (b) "At her command the palace ilearnt to rise, . Again the long^falPhcolumu sought the skies." " | (c) " How often have I led thy j sportive '■ .choir, .'•■ AX- 1 ■ With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire." 6. What do these lines mean ? — (a) " They please, are pleased, they give fco get esteem, Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem." (6) "The self-dependent lordlings stand alone, All claims that bind and sweeten life I unknown." .