12. What word may be supplied after REIGN? How is this indicated in the reading? (Introduction, p. [10].)
13-20. Read these lines with a view to Perspective. (Introduction, p. [33].)
Give examples of Grouping throughout the poem and show how the Pause is affected. (Introduction, p. [11].)
What words in stanza iii are emphatic through contrast? In stanza v?
What feeling in the last half of stanza v? (Introduction, pp. [10]-12.) In what Time, Pitch, and Force are these lines read? Give your reasons.
OF STUDIES
From the "Essays"
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.