Addison's _Cato_?

(_b_) Of Addison's poem, _The Campaign_?

(_c_) What information does Macaulay give concerning "Johnson's Club"?

N. B.--For IV (_a_) and (_b_) may be substituted the following:

(1) What does Macaulay say of Milton's minor poems?

(2) Of _Paradise Lost_ and _Paradise Regained_?

(1907)

B

_Answer all questions fully and in order:_

I (_a_) Discuss the relation of Addison's literary fame to his political
preferment.

(_b_) How did Johnson come to write _The Lives of the Poets_?

II (_a_) What was the occasion, and what the nature of _Lycidas_?

(_b_) Describe the part played by the Attendant Spirit, from first to
last, in _Comus_.

III Trace the successive steps by which Brutus was won to the
conspiracy.

IV How did Burke's plan of conciliation with the colonies differ from
other plans?

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

(Spring, 1907)

NOTE.--"No candidate will be accepted in English whose work is notably
defective in spelling, punctuation, idiom or division into
paragraphs."--_Extract from the University Catalogue._

A

1 Analyze the following sentence and parse the words italicized:

I grant there is one subject on which it is pleasant to talk on a
journey; and _that_ is, what one shall have for supper when we _get_
to our inn at _night_.

2 Write a paragraph of about fifty words on each of the following
subjects taken from the books of which a general knowledge is required:

_a_ Goldsmith's Hardships in London.

_b_ King Arthur's Last Battle.

_c_ The Character of Macduff.

_d_ The Contents of the Caskets.

_e_ Sir Roger at the Theater.

B

1 How did Antony think the motive of Brutus in killing Caesar differed
from that of the other conspirators.

2 What attitude toward slavery is revealed in Burke's speech?

3 Tell the story of _Comus_.

4 Tell where the following passage is found; in what measure it is
written; scan it; and explain the italicized words:

Sometimes with secure delight,
The _upland_ hamlets will invite,
When the merry bells ring round,
And the jocund _rebecks_ sound
To many a youth and many a maid
Dancing in the _chequered_ shade;
And young and old come forth to play
On a _sunshine_ holiday,
Till the livelong daylight fail:
Then to the spicy nut-brown ale,
With stories told of many