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THE SCHOOL 629 Cheered with the grateful smell old ocean smiles Explain the allusions in He to be deemed Λ god leapt fondly into -Etna's flames Gordian twine To be avenged On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire No falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper On what grounds was Milton charged with Arianism Discuss this 10 Compare the Miltonic conception of Satan with that of other poets 11 Punctuate the following passage and explain the gram- matical construction of the sentences Meanwhile upon the firm opacous globe Of this round world whose first convex divides The luminous inferior orbs enclos'd From Chaos and th' inroad of darkness old Satan alighted walks globe far off It seemed now seems boundless continent Dark waste and wild under the frown of Night Starless exposed and ever threat'ning storms Of Chaos blust'ring round inclement sky auar'S prologue anlf tije JJonne $3 StC£i Calt Supposing there was no external evidence as to when Chaucer lived what might you conclude from the Prologue Can you quote any passage from Chaucer's works in which he speaks of himself Show how wide his learning was What do you know of his literary contemporaries in England Mention any previous writers English or Foreign from whom Chaucer drew materials for his writings Try to state in what his originality consists Where had the Knight campaigned Quote any part of the