English & English Essay
- Year 2017
- Conducted By HPSC
Exam Details
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Examination | HCS (Ex.Br.) & Other Allied Services Mains Exam-2017 |
| Year | 2017 |
| Conducting Body | HPSC |
This question paper belongs to the HCS (Ex.Br.) & Other Allied Services Mains Exam-2017 2017. Questions are available in Hindi and English and cover important areas of the General Studies syllabus.
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- suitable title : [20] If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick bed.
- How king like he sways his pillow tumbling and tossing, and shifting and lowering and the thumping and flatting and moulding it, to the ever varying requisitions of his throbbing temples.
- He changes sides oftener than politicians.
- Now he lies in full length, then half length, obliquely, transversely, head and feet quite across the bed; and none accuses him of tergiversation.
- Within the four curtains he is absolute.
- How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! he is his own exclusive object.
- Supreme selfish is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
- He has nothing to think of but how to get well.
- What passes out of the doors, or within them, so he hears not the Jarring of them, affects him not.
- Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow in your own words: [20] In the later half of the seventeenth century and practically the whole of the eighteenth century - The Augustan age, as they are called - the classics came to exercise a complete hold over English Literature.
- It was even believed that they represented the highest standards of literary beauty which English writers had only to follow to attain perfection in their art.
- To this end therefore they directed all their energies, conveniently forgetting what their own predecessors - Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare had achieved without any direct aid from them.
- One was the excess of the Metaphysical poets and the other the unprecedented influence of the French Literary modes on the English.
- What is the period of Augustan age and Why?
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