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THE SCHOOL 627 Yet still one gen'ral cry the skies assails And gain and grandeur load the tainted gales They mount they shine evaporate and fall Love ends with hope With weekly libels and septennial ale- Their wish is full to riot and to rail Resistless burns the fever of renown Caught from the strong contagion of the gown There mark what ills the Scholar's life assail- Toil envy want the patron and the jail Behold surrounding Kings their pow'rs combine And one capitulate and one resign The waves he lashes and enchains the wind The still returning tale and ling'ring jest Perplex the fawning niece and pamper'd guest Must helpless man in ignorance sedate Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate In what connection does Johnson mention Villiers Democritus Swift Orpheus Hyde Wolsey Derive and explain these words opiate-bust-mort- gag'd-menial-assassin-baffled Explain these phrases the tuneful lenitives of pain- Melancholy's phantoms-a specious pray'r-collective man -the gulphs of Pate Point out carefully what is characteristic in the language of this poem of the age in which it was written and of its author iHtltott'ii ParaUtSe Host Books III and IV To what period of Milton's life does the composition of Paradise Lost" belong Establish your answer by internal evidence Criticise the following estimate of Milton's style We rarely meet with feeble lines in Paradise Lost though with many that are hard and in common use of the word might be called prosaic His versification is entirely his own Β Β