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116 QUEEN'S COLLEGE, GALWAY.
13, "Swift," says Dr. Johnson, "said trnly of himself,
that Ireland was his debtor" :-How does J ohnsonjnstify
the claim 1
14. It has been said that "the origin of perhaps the
snblimest simile that EnglisK poetry can boast is to Le
found in Claudian " ;-
"ut aUus Olympi
Vertex, qui spatio ventos hiemesque relinquit,­
Sub pedibus nimbos et rauca tonitma calcat :
Sic patiens aninius : "-
Quote from Tlte .Deserted Village the simile referred to.
15; Write notes on the following lines:-
(a.) "And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain";-
(b.) "Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage;
And even the story ran-that he could gauge" ;-
(c.) "The twelve good rules, the royal game of
goose" ;-
16. Whom does Goldsmith (in Retaliation) describe as
"the Terence of' England," and whom as the" Scourge
of Impostors," and why'1
What was the last line written by Goldsmith 1
17. Name the boundaries of the five Zones; and give
tlle'breadth in degrees of each Zone.
18. In what counties are the ,following plaCes, and for
what are they severally remarkable'!-'Vindsor, Stratfordon-Avon,
Grantharn, Lichfield. Cashel, Rugby, Aughrim,
Abbotsford, Eton.
19. How would you sail from London to Paris 1
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