Calendar: 1873-1874 Page 628

628 THE SCHOOL framed on Latin and chiefly Virgilian model the pause less frequently resting on the close of the line than in Homer and much less than in our own dramatic poets Give instances from these books of words employed in sense different from their modern usage Collect illustrations of what have been called "Milton's pedantic Latinities Explain the following passages They pass the planets seven and pass the fixt And that crystalline sphere whose balance weighs The trepidation talk'd and that first mov'd The fleecy star Though by their powerful art they bind Volatile Hermes The only evil that walks Invincible except to God alone Where the sons of Eden long before Dwelt in Telassar Her borrowed light with countenance triform Hence fills and empties to enlighten th' Earth Where Abassin kings their issue guard Give the derivation and meanings of the following words referring them to the context in which they are used Firmament-maugre-limbo-limbec-elixir-empyreal crisped--boon-damasked hyacinthine-alabaster-descant- anuring-serenate Illustrate from ancient or modern authors the thoughts ex- pressed in the following lines So without least impulse or shadow of fate They trespass And like devilish engine back recoils Upon himself Evil be thou my good Necessity the tyrants' plea Felt how awful goodness is In these he put two weights Th sequel each of parting and of fight