General Knowledge Questions
Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss Grace Darke. "Travancore," Parkstone, Dorset, for the following :— Questions on the Poems of Robert Browning 1. What was bought on a palace-step in Florence "for a lira, 8d. English just"? 2. Of whom was it said" 'Thinketh He dwelleth i' the cold, o' the moon"? . -
3. Who sharpened his sight to spy a providence "in the fire going out, the kettle's boiling, the dime sticking fast despite the hole in the pocket"
4. Who "once prepared 'to paint an angel"?
5. Who was able
"By means of a secret charm to draw All creatures living beneath the sun That creep or swim or fly or run"?
6. Who for one year' Put on glory, Raphael's daily wear
7. Who "Over his wine so smiled and talked his hour"?
8. Who wished it put in the notice of her death that she "had been a mother of a son exactly two weeks"?
9. Who was advised to "paint the soul, never mind the legs and arms! "
10. Whose cap was brushed by "A great black bird,' Apollyon's bosom friend"?
11. Who was warned that without a light he would find "a poor devil had ended his cares At the foot of his rotten-runged, rat-riddled stairs "-! 12. Who had "first shot up a full head in stature, As if age had foregone its usurpature " • 13. Down whose throat was poured "our last measure of wire' Answers will be found_on par 758.
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