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Technical, and General Educational Works, 80 arranged as to show at a glance what works are available in any given branch of Education. 5s. Sampson Lowe and Co. FIRST B.A. PASS EXAMINATION.-1872. Examiners, J. G. Fitch, Esq., M.A., and Prof. H. Morley. ENGLISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE. Morning Paper. 1. "If we look only at the characters of the rulers and at their foreign policy, we must pronounce the reign of Charles II. to be the worst that has ever been seen in England. If, on the other hand, we confine our observations to the laws which were passed and to the principles which were established, we shall be obliged to confess that this same reign forms one of the brightest epochs in our national annals."-Buckle. Verify in detail the statements made in this passage. 2. Give some particulars respecting the origin of Parliament, and show in what respects the early Parliaments differed from those of the 19th century. 3. Name in order the most important Acts affecting the condition and status of the Church in England before the Reformation. 4. Give a brief summary of the public events in the reign of Henry VII. 5. Describe one of the most important political trials of the Stuart period. 6. Recount the chief facts relating to the life of any two persons undermentioned, and to the part they played in the history of their time: Dunstan, Robert of Normandy, Raleigh, Bacon, Buckingham, Fairfax. 7. What opinions does Johnson, in his Lives of Dryden and Pope, incidentally express on these subjects?— (a) Dryden's powers as a critic. (b) The subjects best suited for poetry. (c) The characteristics of Homer and Virgil. 8. Enumerate those of Dryden's Poems which bore special relation to the political or religious events of his time. Describe the occasion on which each was produced, and the effect which followed its publication. 9. Give some particulars respecting these books, showing when and why they were written: "The Campaign;" "The Rape of the Lock;" "The Fable of the Bees;" "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot." 10. In what literary quarrels were Pope and Dryden respectively engaged? Give your reason for judging in any case that the poet was wrong. 11. When were the Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian written, and by whom? Explain what you think to be the general purpose of this class of literature, and how far that purpose was fulfilled. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. 1. Reproduce, in your own words, the passage read by the Examiner. 2. Show where, in Shakspere's play of " King Henry VIII.," events were grouped without a strict regard to their true dates. Justify these variations, and account for them by sketching the plan of the Play considered not as history but as a poem. 3. Explain any peculiarity in the grammar or idiom of each of the following sentences: Since last we saw in France? (b) The peace between the French and us not values The cost that did conclude it. (c) Not friended by his wish, to your high person (d) & Sir Thomas, The more shame for ye, holy men I thought ye. As soul and body's severance. (g) Sir, I desire you do me right and justice, (h) Which of your friends Have I not strove to love, although I knew 4. It has been said that the versification of "King Henry VIII." is not Shaksperean. Why is that said, and how far do you think it true? 5. Give the exact meaning of the words underlined in the following passages: (a) Being present both, 'Twas said they saw but one; and no discerner Durst wag his tongue in censure. (b) I do pronounce him in that very shape He shall appear in proof. (c) Your soft cheveril conscience. 6. Give, as exactly as you can, the sense of each of the following sentences: 7. Sketch the life of John Locke to the date of the publication of his "Essay concerning Human Understanding." 8. Locke says: "When I first began this discourse of the Understanding, and a good while after, I had not the least thought that any consideration of Words was at all necessary to it." Show why he included this consideration, and explain the relation of the third book of Locke's work to its main design. 9. "The names of simple ideas, and those only, are incapable of being defined." Give the substance of Locke's argument on this point. 10. In the second book of his essay Locke had reduced complex ideas under the three heads of Modes, Substances, and Relations. The Modes he considered as dependences on or affections of Substances, such as the ideas expressed by the words "triangle" and "gratitude," and these he subdivided into simple and mixed. What is his argument in the third book concerning the names of mixed modes as representing "voluntary collections of ideas put together in the mind independent from any original pattern in nature"? 11. Show how from this argument Locke goes on to point out how the very nature of words makes it unavoidable for many of them to be doubtful and uncertain in their significations, and how the uncertainty is increased by wilful faults and neglects of men. 12. What are the chief remedies suggested by Locke for "the mistakes and confusion that are spread in the world by an ill use of words"? FIRST B.A. PASS EXAMINATION.—1874. Examiners, Rev. Prof. Brewer, M.A., and Prof. Henry Morley. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. 1. Reproduce in your own words the passage read by the Examiner. 2. Give some account of the construction of the play of "Hamlet," with especial reference to its unity of design as a dramatic poem. 3. Add a short comment on the character of Polonius. 4. Explain the underlined words in the following sentences, and set each sentence in a brief description of its context: "If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.” "He wore his beaver up." "The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, "I do not set my life at a pin's fee." "Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, "The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs "There is, sir, an aery of children, little eyases "Marry, this is miching mallecho, it means mischief.” "Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to play "This quarry cries on havoc." |