8. And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy
Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be
Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy
I wantoned with thy breakers; they to me
Were a delight; and, if the freshening sea
Made them a terror, 'twas a pleasing fear;
For I was, as it were, a child of thee,
And trusted to thy billows far and near,
And laid my hand upon thy mane, as I do here.

9. My task is done-my song hath ceased-my theme Has died into an echo; it is fit

The spell should break of this protracted dream;

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The torch shall be extinguished which hath lit
My midnight lamp-and what is writ is writ.
Would it were worthier! but I am not now
That which I have been-and my visions flit
Less palpably before me—and the glow
Which in my spirit dwelt is fluttering, faint, and low.

10. Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been-
A sound which makes us linger,-yet-farewell!
Ye! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene
Which is his last, if in your memories dwell

ANALYSIS.-64. And I have loved, etc. What figure in the line?
66. Borne, like thy bubbles, etc. What figure?

67. wantoned. What is the meaning here?

68. Give the meaning of freshening sea?

71. Give the syntax of far and near.

72. thy mane. What figure?

74. What is the meaning of fit here?

75. Name the modifiers of spell.

76. Give the modifiers of torch.

77. what is writ is writ. Why this form of the verb?

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A thought which once was his, if on ye swell
A single recollection, not in vain

He wore his sandal-shoon and scallop-shell;
Farewell! with him alone may rest the pain,
If such there were-with you, the moral of the strain.

ANALYSIS.-86. swell. Is this grammatically correct?
88. What is the meaning of sandal-shoon and scallop-shell
89. Dispose of the verb in this line.

90. If such there were. Give the mode of the verb.
Give the grammatical construction of moral.

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MONT BLANC.

NOTE. The following is taken from Byron's dramatic poem Man

fred. A voice, the SECOND SPIRIT, Speaks:

MONT BLANC is the monarch of mountains

They crown'd him long ago

On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,

With a diadem of snow.

Around his waist are forests braced,

The avalanche in his hand;
But ere it fall, that thundering ball
Must pause for my command.
The glacier's cold and restless mass
Moves onward day by day;
But I am he who bids it pass,
Or with its ice delay.

I am the spirit of the place,

Could make the mountain bow
And quiver to his caverned base—

And what with me wouldst Thou?

15. SIR WALTER SCOTT,

1771-1832.

WALTER SCOTT, the brilliant and versatile Scotch poet and novelist, was born in Edinburgh on the 15th of August, 1771. His father was a writer to The Signet, his mother being the daughter of an eminent physician of Edinburgh. Walter at the age of eighteen months was made lame as the result of a severe teething fever. His early education was acquired in the Edinburgh High School, but he subsequently took a short course in the University of Edinburgh.

At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to his father. Having served his apprenticeship, he began the study cf law, and in 1792 "donned the wig and gown of a Scottish advocate." But as a lawyer Scott could never lay claim to much success. His great delight was in reading Spenser, Percy's Reliques, Boccaccio, and Froissart, and he was well read also in Shakespeare and Milton.

His literary career began with the translation of Bürger's Lenore from the German. This was published in 1796 Soon after this he married Charlotte Carpenter, and they settled in a cottage at Lasswade. Here he relieved his literary labors with cavalry-drills, for he was at this time also quartermaster of the Edinburgh Lighthorse.

In 1799 he was appointed sheriff of the county of Selkirk, with a salary of three hundred pounds a year, and with his savings from this, added to a small fortune which his wife brought him, he bought a farm on the

Tweed, not far from Yarrow; and it was here that his first great poem, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, was written. It was published in 1805, and it at once placed its author in the foremost rank as an English poet. It was but the first of a series of romances in verse, among the best of which were the two stirring poems, Marmion and The Lady of the Lake.

Scott's habits as a writer were among the most regular possible. He rose usually at five, dressed with care, and went to see his horses. At six he was at his desk, with a dog or two lying at his feet. Here he remained until nine or ten, when he breakfasted. After breakfast he resumed writing, which he continued until noon. During the afternoon he usually rode much, often hunting hares, or glided back and forth on the Tweed in his boat.

In 1806, Scott was appointed one of the clerks of the Sessions, which added eight hundred pounds a year to his income. He now bought additional tracts of land from time to time, and built up his noted home, Abbotsford. The poet Byron about this time was winning fame rapidly, and Scott at once left the field of poesy and betook himself to prose. In 1814 appeared his first prose romance, Waverley, but without the author's name. success of this novel was immediately remarkable. He soon added others, but so guarded was the secret of the author's name that even the printers found the manuscript copied by one of the Ballantynes, his publishers, before it was sent to press.

The

The Waverley series consists of twenty-seven novels, eighteen of which are historical in character, being founded upon events ranging from the eleventh to the eighteenth century. Among the best of these romances are Guy Mannering, Ivanhoe, Old Mortality, Herrt of Midlothian, Waverley, Rob Roy, Kenilworth, and A Legend of

Montrose. While writing these romances he wrote also the Life and Works of Dryden, in eighteen volumes, the Life and Works of Dean Swift, the Life of Napoleon, Tales of a Grandfather, and a number of other works.

By the failure of his publishers Scott found himself at the age of fifty-five in debt to the extent of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds, and he set to work immediately to pay the debt with the earnings of his pen. Four years later, in 1830, he was stricken with paralysis, and from this time onward he suffered at intervals attacks of both apoplexy and paralysis. In 1832, on the 21st of September, the great author died, having in the six years following the failure of his publishers paid more than half the indebtedness which he had sc diligently struggled to liquidate.

The honor of a baronetcy, which gave Scott the title "Sir Walter," was conferred on him by King George IV. in 1820, in consideration of his excellence as a writer. The position of poet-laureate was tendered him in 1812, but he declined the honor with respectful thanks. No more industrious writer than Scott ever plied the pen. Indeed, his success as a literary man was due much more to his industry than to his scholarship.

CRITICISM BY W. F. COLLIER.

THOUGH facile princeps in his own peculiar realm of poetry, Scott's brilliant renown rests chiefly on his novels. The same love of chivalrous adventure and mediæval romance colors his best works in both branches of literature. The author of Marmion and The Lady of the Lake was just the man to produce, in maturer age and with finer literary skill, the changeful, pathetic brilliance of Waverley and the courtly splendor of Kenilworth. Of his poems, The Lady of the Lake is perhaps the best.