War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Never ending, still beginning, Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. The many rend the skies with loud applause; 80 85 So Love was crowned, but Music won the cause. Gazed on the fair Who caused his care, And sighed and looked, sighed and looked, 90 At length, with love and wine at once oppressed, VI. Now strike the golden lyre again; A louder yet, and yet a louder strain. Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Has raised up his head, ANALYSIS.-77. What is the object of sung? 78. What figure in the line? Parse but and bubble. 79, 80. Dispose of the participles in the line. 81. worth is here used as an adjective. Winning is in the objective case after a preposition understood. 82. worth enjoying. Dispose of both words. 85. Explain the figure in the line. 86 Point out and name the figure in this line. 92 93 Name the modifiers of victor. 95. Dispose of the words yet and yet. 96 bands of sleep. What figure? 97 Dispose of like and peal. 99. raised up. Would this be correct in prose? 95 These are Grecian ghosts, that in battle were slain, And unburied remain, 110 Inglorious on the plain Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew. Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes, And glittering temples of their hostile gods' The princes applaud with a furious joy, And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fired another Troy! ANALYSIS.-100, 101. Write in prose form, and supply the ellipsis. Dispose of the word around. 105. they and their. To what does each word refer? 108. Give construction of torch. 112, 113. Explain what is meant. 118. to destroy. What does it modify? 120. To light, etc. What kind of phrase, and what does it modify? 115 120 VII. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute; Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, 125 The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, 130 Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown; He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down. ANALYSIS.--123. Meaning of heaving bellows? 127. Explain the figures in the line. 131 132. What is the meaning of these lines? 133. Nature's. Why written with a capital letter? What figure in the line? mother-wit. Give the meaning. 137. Dispose of down. 135 CONTEMPORANEOUS WRITERS. POET. Samuel Butler (1612-1680).-The greatest burlesque-writer of the age in which he lived. Famous as the author of Hudibras, one of the keenest satires in English, ridiculing the manners of the Puritans. PROSE-WRITERS. John Bunyan (1628-1688).—The greatest master of Allegory in the language. At first a poor tinker, then a preacher. Wrote his famous Pilgrim's Progress while in jail for insisting on preaching his doctrines to the people. Author also of Holy War and Grace abounding in the Chief of Sinners, all written in excellent English. John Locke (1632–1704).—A metaphysical writer. Educated at Oxford. His greatest work is An Essay concerning the Human Understanding. Author also of Thoughts concerning Education and other essays. Sir William Temple (1628-1699).-A well-known statesman and a writer of high character. Author of a number of gracefully-written essays. John Evelyn (1620-1706).-Distinguished as the author of several scientific works written in a popular style. His most prominent works are Sylva, a treatise on forest trees, and Terra, a work on agriculture and gardening. V. AGE OF QUEEN ANNE. 1700-1750. REIGNS OF QUEEN ANNE, GEORGE I., GEORGE II. THE age of Queen Anne is remarkable chiefly for the introduction of periodical literature. This is the era in which flourished The Tatler and The Spectator, the earliest of literary journals. The moral tone of this era was but little more elevated than that of the preceding, but there was more refinement of both manners and language. Among the most noted literary representatives of the era were Addison, Pope, Steele, Swift, and Defoe. 7. JOSEPH ADDISON, 1672-1719. JOSEPH ADDISON, the son of a Wiltshire rector, was horn May 1, 1672. His early life was passed in his father's family at the rectory, but in his boyhood he was sent to Charter-House School in London, where he met a young Irish lad, Richard Steele, with whom he formed an intimate friendship which continued through life. At the age of fifteen he left the CharterHouse School and entered Queen's College, Oxford. Two years later he secured a scholarship in Magdalen College, granted for the excellence of his Latin verses. |