dealing with the American spirit of liberty? State his reasons for
rejecting the first two.

(_b_) What does Burke think should be the attitude of one nation toward
another in such a crisis as the one under discussion?

(_c_) Cite any reasons that appeal to you as helping to explain the
fame of Burke's _Speech on Conciliation with America_.

IV (_a_) Write an account of Johnson's early years in London.

(_b_) Macaulay says of Johnson: "No human being who has been more than
seventy years in the grave is so well known to us." Discuss the grounds
for this statement.

WELLESLEY COLLEGE

(1906)

A--Reading and Practice

_Answer two of the following questions:_

1 What qualities do Lady Macbeth and Portia of Belmont have in common,
and at what point do their characters diverge?

2 Which of the three required _Idylls of the King_, viz. _Gareth and
Lynette_, _Lancelot and Elaine_, _The Passing of Arthur_, seems to you
more beautiful, and why?

3 Compare the life of Goldsmith with that of Dr. Johnson. Which life
seems to you the more successful?

B--Study and Practice

_Answer two of questions_ 1, 2, 3, _question_ 4, _and either question_ 5
_or_ 6:

1 What makes the play of _Julius Caesar_ great?

2 Compare the nature pictures in _L'Allegro_ with those in _Il
Penseroso_, using, if you prefer, Milton's own language.

3 What were Burke's strong points as an orator?

4 Write a well-constructed paragraph of about two hundred words on the
character of Samuel Johnson as presented by Macaulay. Give your reasons
for the arrangement of the ideas in your paragraph. Show how the
principles of unity and coherence are illustrated by the arrangement of
the ideas or material of your paragraph.

5 (_a_) Give two examples of each of the following kinds of sentences:
simple, complex, compound.

(_b_) Punctuate the following passage:

"And night came down over the solemn waste
And the two gazing hosts and that sole pair
And darkened all and a cold fog with night
Crept from the Oxus soon a hum arose
As of a great assembly loosed and fires
Began to twinkle through the fog for now
Both armies moved to camp and took their meal
The Persians took it on the open sands
Southward the Tartars by the river merge
And Rustum and his son were left alone."

6 (_a_) Give explicit reasons for the correctness or the incorrectness