The English Text prescribed for the Matriculation Examination of 1875, with notes ... Poetry edited by ... J. Macmillan ... Prose edited by D. Sinclair

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ENGLISH TEXT THE MATKICUL, SfiNAlTO^ • : y ft* £ PP ■ a . ■ : r st v' * 1 t, RS, THE ENGLISH TEXT PRESCRIBED FOR THE MATEICULATION EXAMINATION OF 1875 WITH NOTES AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES- POETRY Edited by Eev. JOHN MACM.ILLAN, M. A., FHEE CUTJECH OF SCOTLAND MISSION. PROSE Edited by D. SINOLAIB, M. A., •THntCH OF SCOTLAND MISSI0>7 c-~Æ»e**#>s^' JUtattras; GANTZ BROTHERS, ADELPHI PEESS, 7 & 8, MOUNT ROAD. 1874. AU rights reserved. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Part I.-POETEY. Page. Memoir of Goldsmith ... ... ••• ••• 1 The Traveller ... Memoir of Macaulay ... .. «... Preface to the Battle of the Lake Regillus. ... ... 14 The Battle of the Lake Eegillus. ... ... ... 20 Memoir of Campbell... ... ... •■■ ••• 40 Hohenlicden ... ... ... ••• ••• The Soldier's Dream ... ... •■• ••• 44 Lochiel's Warning ... ... ••• • •• 45 O'Corinor's Child... ... ... - ... 48 Notes to Goldsmith ... ... ... ••• i Notes to Macaulay .. ... ... ... xxii Notes to HohenlindeD. ... ... ... ...xxxvi Notes to The Soldier's Dream ... ... xxiviii Notes to Lochiel's Warning ... ... ... ... xl Notes to O'Connor's Child ... ... ... ...

Ii Part II -PROSE. Memoir of Baron De La Motte FouquS. ... ... ... 1 Sintram and His Companions ... ... .. 3 Notes to Sintram and his Companions ... ... ... i Index to the Notes ... ... ... ... lix N.B.— Tbe right to print "The Lake Regillus" has been purchased from Meeers. Longmans, Green and Co, the ewners of the copylight, MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH. Oliver Goldsmith (b. 1728, d. 1774) was producing his best works in the years immediately before the birth of Wordsworth. He was one of eight children of the clergyman of Kilkenny West ; was educated at the village school , entered, with aid from an uncle, Mr. Contarine, in 1745, as a sizar at Trinity College, Dublin, and there graduated aa B.A. in 1749. From 1752 to 1754 he was studying medicine at Edinburgh, and continued like studies in 1754 at Leyden.

He then travelled on foot about the Continent. In 1756 he was in London, and tried many ways of earning bread. He had no skill in managing outward affairs of life, but had within him a pure breath of genius. He wrote criticisms for the Monthly Review, and then for the Critical Revieio ; published, in 1759, au Enquiry into ihe Present Stale of Polite Learning in Europe ; produced eight numbers of a paper called The Bee ; and contributed in 1760, to Newbery's new daily paper, the Public Ledger, two articles a week for a guinea a-piece. These essays, collected in 1762, as The Citizen of the World, are full of tbe kind liest humour, and in prose written with the unaffected grace of a true poet. In 1763 Johnson, who felt the worth of Goldsmith, and was his firm friend, sold the MS. of the ' Vicar of Wakefield' for £60, to relieve Goldsmith from immediate distress and debt.