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LEAVING CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION, 1904.
EXAMINATION PAPERS.
ENGLISH.
Lower Grade.
Thursday, 23rd June.—10 A.M. to 12.30 e.m.
Every Candidate should answer nine questions (and not more than
nine), namely, Questions 1, 2, 3, and 4, and one other question in
Section L, two in Section II., and two in Section III.
Before attempting to answer any question, candidates should read it
carefully through. This caution is particularly important in the case
of Question 3.
10. 1. Write out, and punctuate, the passage for dictation.
15. 2. Write an essay, of about two pages, on one of the following
subjects :—
{a.) The Newspaper : what are the chief kinds of reading that
it contains, and for what is each valuable 1
(b.) The life of a rat on board “hip.
15. 3. Express, in your own language, as accurately as you can, the
meaning of the following passage, and show how the illus¬
tration bears out the main argument:—
“ But we, frail wights! whose sight cannot sustain
The Sun’s bright beams when he on us doth shine,
But that their points rebutted back again
Are dulled, how can wc see with feeble eyne *
The glory of that Majesty Divine;
In sight of whom both Sun and Moon are dark,
Compared to his least resplendent spark 1
The means, therefore, which unto us is lent
Him to behold, is on his works to look,
Which he hath made in beauty excellent.
And in the same, as in a brazen book,
To read enregistered in every nook •
His goodness, which his beauty doth declare,
For all that’s good is beautiful and fair.'''