Навчальний посібник для студентів ос «Бакалавр» галузі знань 03 «Гуманітарні науки»
Partridge, hath almost deprived me of my senses! And was Mrs. Waters, then
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Partridge, hath almost deprived me of my senses! And was Mrs. Waters, then – but why do I ask? for thou must certainly know her – If thou hast any affection for me, nay, if thou hast any pity, let me beseech thee to fetch this miserable woman back again to me. Oh, good Heavens! Incest – with a mother! D) I replied that England (the dear Place of my Nativity) was computed to produce three Times the Quantity of Food, more than its Inhabitants are able to consume, as well as Liquors extracted from Grain, or pressed out of the Fruit of certain Trees, which made excellent Drink; and the same Proportion in every other Convenience of Life. But, in order to feed the Luxury and Intemperance of the Males, and the Vanity of the Females, we sent away the greatest Part of our necessary Things to other Countries, from whence in Return we brought the Materials of Diseases, Folly, and Vice, to spend among ourselves. Hence it follows of Necessity, that vast Numbers of our People are compelled to seek their Livelihood by Begging, Robbing, Stealing, Cheating, Pimping, Forswearing, Flattering, Suborning, Forging, Gaming, Lying, Fawning, Hectoring, Voting, Scribling, Stargazing, Poysoning, Whoring, Canting, Libelling, Free-thinking, and the like Occupations: Every one of which Terms, I was at much Pains to make him understand. E) I told the Christian reader – I say Christian – hoping he is one – and if he is not, I am sorry for it – and only beg he will consider the matter with himself, and not lay the blame entirely upon this book, - I told him, Sir – for in good truth, when a man is telling a story in the strange way I do mine, he is obliged continually to be going backwards and forwards to keep all tight together in the reader’s fancy – which, for my own part, if I did not take heed to do more than at first, there is so much unfixed and equivocal matter starting up, with so many breaks and gaps in it, - and so little service do the stars afford which, nevertheless, I hang up in some of the darkest passages, knowing that the world is apt to lose its way, with all the lights the sun itself at noonday can give it – and now, you see, I am lost myself! – But ’tis my father’s fault; and whenever my brains come to be dissected, you will perceive, without spectacles, that he has left a large uneven thread, as you sometimes see in an unsalable piece of cambric, running along the whole length of the web. 20. By nature trees do rot when they are grown. And plums and apples thoroughly ripe do fall, And corn and grass are in their season mown, And time brings down what is both strong and tall. But plants new set to be eradicate, And buds new blown, to have so short a date, Is by His hand alone that guides nature and fate. 253 The stanza contrasts A) sowing the seeds and reaping the harvest B) the wages of sin and the rewards of righteousness C) geologic time and the normal span of a human life D) cycles of mutability in the natural world and the permanence of the afterlife E) death as a result of natural process and death as a result of divine intervention 21. As used in line 5, ‘eradicate’ is A) a present indicative B) a past participle C)a subjunctive mood D) an infinitive form E) an imperative form 22. The stanza is from A) John Crowe Ransom’s Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter B) Walt Whitman’s When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d C) Emily Dickinson’s I felt a Funeral, in my Brain D) Wallace Stevens’ жүктеу/скачать 4,66 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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