(b) I will bring you the length of Prester John's foot. (c) Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks With every gale. (d) Our means secure us, and our mere defects (e) Ridges horsed with variable complexions. (ƒ) Man-entered thus, he waxed like a sea. (9) Little eyases that cry out on the top of question. (h) They bore him bare-faced on his bier. 7. What meanings, different from the present, were attached to the following words in Shakspeare's time:-Abuse, allowance, coil, continents, favour, forgery, guards, impaled, motion, prevent, sensible, starve? Quote passages illustrating the older usage. 8. Give a concise account of the principal works of Bacon. 9. Give a summary of Bacon's essay on Counsel, or Anger. 10. Explain fully and refer to the context the following passages from Bacon:: (a) The four pillars of Government. (b) Eccentrics and epicycles and such engines of orbs. (c) Dry light is the best. (d) Let him study the schoolmen. (e) The great winding-sheets that bury all things in oblivion. (f) Of great riches there is no real use. exception does Bacon admit to this? What 11. State the principal arguments adduced by Milton against the licensing of the press. 12. What information do we gather from Milton's sonnets about (a) his personal history, (b) the history of his times? ENGLISH. THIRD PAPer. The Board of Examiners. 1. Give the substance of, and discuss, Matthew Arnold's remarks on Jeffrey and Macaulay considered as critics. 2. (a) What, according to John Morley, are the best methods of getting the most benefit from a book? (b) What does De Quincey consider the leading characteristics found in the conversation of Burke, Dr. Johnson, and Coleridge? Explain the causes. of the differences found to exist therein. (c) "You cannot do wrong without suffering 3. Discuss the merits and the defects of Byron's poetry. 4. Is Pope a poet? Discuss this question. 5. Give the substance and discuss the correctness of Dr. Johnson's criticisms on Paradise Lost. 6. Why is Goethe, according to Carlyle, "for the last hundred years by far the notablest of all literary men"? 7. Discuss the qualifications, methods, and achievements of Abbot Sampson considered as a governor. 8. Give a summary of (a) The Two Voices; (b) Caliban upon Setebos. 9. Do the Idylls of the ganic poem or not? King form a complete orDiscuss this question. 10. Explain and refer to the context each of the following passages :— (a) Ulpian serves his need! (b) A sunflower opening like a sacrifice (c) This man decided not to Live but Know. (d) The round squat turret, blind as the fool's heart. (e) Three souls which make up one soul. (ƒ) All those names that in their motion were Full-welling fountain-heads of change. (9) On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. (h) Of many changes, aptly joined, Is bodied forth the second whole. 11. Explain the following passages from Ruskin : (a) In languages like English there is a fatal power of equivocation. (b) Ten millions' worth of panic annually. (c) Shakspeare has no heroes. (d) The arts must have noble motive. What does Mr. Ruskin say about the Homeric story? 12. Give some account of (a) the principal prose works of Switt, or (b) the life and works of Keats. ENGLISH ESSAY. The Board of Examiners. Contrast the "glory of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song." E FRENCH. FIRST PAPer. The Board of Examiners. 1. Write an essay in French on the Influence of J. J. Rousseau. 2. Translate into English (a) Li Lundreis funt joie de la venue lur seignur, Li reis esteit entre en sa chambre demeine Quant le message vint; suffert ot mult grant peine, Il n'ot beu ne mangie treis jorz de la semeine, Il ad fait mult que sage, il aurad bone estreine. (b) Quant li quens Garins de Biaucare vit qu'il ne poroit Aucassin son fil retraire des amors Nicolete, il traist au visconte de le vile, qui ses hon estoit, si l'apela : "Šire visquens, car ostes Nicolete, vostre filole. Que la tere soit maleoite, dont ele fu amenee en cest païs! Car par li pert jou Aucassin; qu'il ne veut estre cevaliers ne faire point de quanque faire doie. Et sacies bien que, se je le puis avoir, que je le arderai en un fu, et vous meïsmes pores avoir de vos tote peor." |