Teachers' outlines for studies in English, based on the requirements for admission to college

by Gilbert Sykes Blakely

(1907)

B

Answer all questions fully and in order:

2. 1. Discuss the relation of Addison's literary fame to his political preferment.
   2. How did Johnson come to write The Lives of the Poets?
3. 1. What was the occasion, and what the nature of Lycidas?
   2. Describe the part played by the Attendant Spirit, from first to last, in Comus.
4. Trace the successive steps by which Brutus was won to the conspiracy.
5. How did Burke's plan of conciliation with the colonies differ from other plans?

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