5. _Eteocles and Polynices killed each other._ What is the construction
here? _Ils se battaient, l'un l'autre_--_Ils se battaient, les uns les
autres._ Translate these two sentences into English. _My wife and
little ones are well._ What is the origin of the word _ones_ here? _It
_was_ those who spoke_. _These _was_ those who spoke_. Why is one of
those expressions correct, and the other incorrect?

6. What is the difference between--

_The_ secretary and treasurer,
and
_The_ secretary and _the_ treasurer?

What is that between--

The first two--
and
The two first?

7. What is the construction of--

He sleeps the sleep of the righteous?

8. Whether do you say--It is I your master who command you, or It is I
your master who commands you!

9. Barbican it _hight_. Translate this into Latin.

10. Explain in full the following constructions--

a. I have ridden a horse.
b. I am to blame.
c. I am beaten.
d. A part of the body.
e. All fled but John.

11. What is meant by the _Succession of Tenses_? Show the logical
necessity of it.

12. Or _hear'st_ thou rather pure ethereal stream,
Whose fountain _who can_ tell?--MILTON.

Give the meaning of this passage, and explain the figure of speech
exhibited in the words in Italics.

13. The _door_ being open the steed was stolen.--In what case is
_door_?

PART VI.

1. The way was long, the wind was cold. Express the metre of this
symbolically.

2. Define _rhyme_.

3. Give instances of _Service metre_, _Blank heroics_, _Alexandrines_.

PART VII.

1. How far do the present dialects of England coincide with the parts,
that took their names from the _Angles_ and the _Saxons_ respectively.

2. What traces of Danish or Norse occupancy do we find in local names?

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NOTES.

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[1] The immediate authority for these descents, dates, and localities is
Sharon Turner. They are nearly the same as those which are noticed in Mr.
Kemble's _Saxons in England_. In the former writer, however, they are given
as historical facts; in the latter they are subjected to criticism, and
considered as exceptionable.

[2] It is from Beda that the current opinions as to the details of the
Anglo-Saxon