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(11) Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.
(12) Brevity is the soul of wit.
(13) 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished.
(14) Oh that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains.
- Of the following miscellaneous quotations, give in each case the name of the writer and the piece from which the passage is taken:—
(1) That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.
(2) Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, writing an exact man.
(3) I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in; glittering like, the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
(4) And history, while for the warning of vehement, high, and daring natures, she notes his many errors, will yet deliberately pronounce that, among the eminent men whose bones lie near his, scarcely one has left a more stainless, and none a more splendid name.
(5) Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights and live laborious days.
(6) Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting
And cometh from afar.
(7) The old order changeth, yielding place to new;
And God fulfils himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
(8) And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
(9) View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes,
And hate for arts that caused himself to rise.
(10) Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind,
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
(11) Where ignorance is bliss
'Tis folly to be wise.
(12) To point a moral or adorn a tale.
(13) Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.
(14) Or all day long
Sat often in a seaward-gazing gorge;
A shipwrecked sailor, waiting for a sail.
- Mention five of those whom you consider the principal historical writers, giving a list of the works of each. State the reasons for your preference.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1874, No 20
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