ENGLISH.-PART I. Professor Morris. PASS AND FIRST HONOUR PAPER. 1. Describe briefly Arthur, Pandulph, Constance. 2. Explain the following passages in King John:(a) My picked man of countries. (b) Do, child, go to it grandam, child; Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam will (c) Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back. 3. What is the position of The Tempest in the order of Shakspeare's plays? Set forth the reasons for your answer. 4. Comment on the following words from The Tempest:-Abuse, abysm, foison, kibe, nerves, scamels, stover, teen, tilth, whist. 5. Mention any peculiarities of Carlyle's style of which you can quote examples from Heroes. 6. Who were Cagliostro, Kadijah, Orson, Phalaris, Turenne? 7. Explain the following passages from Emerson :(a) In good faith we are multiplied by our proxies. (b) Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. (c) He will not be a Gibeonite. (d) The market-place is the Louvre of the common people. (e) The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new Mumbo-jumbo. 8. Is Emerson favourable to Napoleon ? 9. Give instances of words formerly thought bad innovations, and now counted good English. 10. Give the history of the following words :-Amuck, battledore, caricature, chemistry, eldorado, paragon, sever, shibboleth, street, zero. 11. Comment on the following lines in Gray:(a) Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood. (b) The shrieks of death through Berkeley's roofs that ring, (c) Shrieks of an agonizing king. Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed and long resounding pace. (d) Hyperion's march they spy and glittering shafts of war. 12. What is meant by the Low-German languages? ENGLISH.-PART II. PASS AND FIRST HONOUR PAPER. Professor Morris. 1. Write an Essay on "English Literature between Chaucer and Spenser." 2. Write a short account of each of the following books:-Lyly's Euphues, Burton's Anatomy, Thomson's Seasons, Johnson's Lives of the Poets. 3. Briefly compare Shakspeare and Ben Jonson. 4. "An age of Prose." Of what period does Arnold say this? Do you think the expression is wholly justified? 5. Explain the following passages in Coriolanus:— I'ld make a quarry (a) With thousands of these quarter'd slaves, as high (b) The most sovereign prescription in Galen is but empirictic, and to this preservative, of no better report than a horse-drench. (c) (d) Is ill-schooled In bolted language; meal and bran together Fortune's blows When most struck home, being gentle wounded craves A noble cunning. 6. Give an appreciation of the foremost female character in each of the two plays Coriolanus and Cymbeline. 7. State very briefly the characteristic points in the prose styles of De Quincey, Landor, Emerson. 8. Comment on the following passages: (a) The setting may occasionally be antiquated, and require now and then to be renewed, as in the case of Chaucer. (b) She was a Chinese, "the fairest of her sex, Angelica." (c) I love what Fuller beautifully calls-these "images of God cut in ebony." (d) I shall end with the memorable words of the assembled barons-"Nolumus leges Angliæ mutari." (e) I have been struck by none of them so much as by that catholic dome in Bloomsbury, under which our million volumes are housed. (f) The labyrinthine shifts of party intrigue at home, and the entanglements of intricate diplomacy abroad-" shallow village tales," as Emerson calls them. (g) I intend some day to get up a Cinque-Cento Club, for the total abolition of Gothic art. (h) There was never colony save this that went forth, not to seek gold, but God. Name the writer in each case. 9. Contrast Matthew Arnold as Poet and as Prosewriter. 10. "So many utterances of so many imaginary persons, not mine."-R. BROWNING. Illustrate the truth of this, and the limitations that must be attached to it. 11. Explain the following passages from the Prin cess: (a) An eagle clang an eagle to the spheres. (d) Like those three stars of the airy Giant's zone. (e) The roar that breaks the Pharos from his base Had left us rock. (f) I moved as in a strange diagonal. FRENCH. Professor Morris. PASS AND FIRST HONOUR PAPER. 1. Translate into French This is a book the like of which is not often seen nowadays: a book boldly conceived, slowly ripened, patiently worked out-a mighty work in which there are to be at once recognised the thought which dominates facts, the inspiration which animates style, the will which accomplishes great undertakings. I could not feel that I had set myself right with M. Taine if, before all discussion, I did not pay homage at once to the value of his work and to the power of his talent. |