Life of Johnson and essay on Addison Author:Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EXAMINATION QUESTIONS The following questions may be of some service to teachers and students by way of indicating possible methods of examination. 1. Show... more », by analysis, the grammatical structure of the last sentence in paragraph 41 (page 36). Parse which (36 9), hammer (36 12). 2. Comment in detail on the structure of the sentences in paragraph 32 (page 23). What can you say of the length of the sentences and their arrangement in the paragraph ? By party (23 20) does Macaulay mean one or more persons ? 3. Explain the meaning (and, if important for that purpose, give the derivation) of the following words : desultory (3 18), ceruse (6 31), novice (8 25), ordinaries (9 21), alamode (9 21), sycophancy (9 28), rabbis (13 23), maundered (34 8), poetasters (39 3), mitigated (43 20). 4. Explain, as fully as possible, the following references and allusions : such an author as Thomson (8 17) ; " the Senate of Lilliput" (10 17) ; the Capulets against the Montagues (10 29, 30) ; Grub Street (14 26) ; Drury Lane Tfieatre (16 35). This species of composition had been brought into fashion by the success of the Tatter, and by the still more brilliant success of the Spectator (18 5-7) ; witty as Lady Mary (20 9, 10) ; Johnson has frequently blamed Shakspeare for neglecting the proprieties of time and place (23 27-29) ; Cock Lane Ghost (26 31) ; Macpherson, whose " Fingal" had been proved to be an impudent forgery (36 4, 5). "Eas- 0 j ation-? 1O"K/J . ', .. t L . 5. Write briefly of Johnson's Dictionary and selas." To what does Johnson owe his great reputation Why ? Write briefly of Johnson's friends. Explain the difference between the political opinions of Johnson and Burke, and attempt to account for it. Mention the chief characteristics of Johnson's style. Comment...« less