ENGLISH. SECOND PAPER. Professor Morris. 1. Write a full note on each of the words romance and humour; and on the group of words given to the language by Astrology. 2. Divide Milton's life into periods, and shortly describe the character of each. Where possible, use Milton's own words. 3. What was the purpose of the Areopagitica? Estimate its immediate and its later influence. 4. Comment on the following passages from the Areopagitica:(a) A kinde of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elementall life, but strikes at that ethereall and fift essence (c) I name not him for posterities sake, whom Harry the 8 nam'd in merriment his Vicar of hell. 5. Estimate Addison's humour. Contrast it with that of Charles Lamb. 6. What are the arguments for and against rhymed. drama? 7. In Past and Present does Carlyle exaggerate the contrast? Is it intentional? 8. M. Arnold has compiled volumes of extracts from Wordsworth and from Byron. Are they satisfactory as selections ? 9. How far is Matthew Arnold's account of Shelley inadequate? 10. In what poems does Browning criticise himself as a poet? Do you think "Holy Cross Day” in bad taste? 11. What did George Eliot say about her work on Romola? Does the book bear traces of the same? ENGLISH. THIRD PAPER. Professor Morris. 1. Give a short account of Polonius and of each of his children. 2. Is there any part of Hamlet in which Shakspeare seems himself to speak rather than one of his characters? 3. A recent American verdict Pope are not poets at all." of a speech for their defence. 66 says Dryden and Prepare the heads 4. Is Johnson unfair in his Lives of the Poets? Give a few details in the case of Milton and of Gray. 5. What was the state of English Literature at the date when Captain Cook discovered Australia? 6. Estimate briefly Leigh Hunt, Sydney Smith, and Charles Kingsley as authors. 7. Give the substance either of Lamb's "Imperfect Sympathies," or of Thackeray's "Nil nisi bonum." 8. What do you consider Macaulay's best work? 9. Quote instances of Tennyson's "smooth filed phrase." Contrast the early and the later Tennyson. 10. Are the Princess and Maud "splendid failures"? ENGLISH. FOURTH PAPER. Professor Morris. Write an Essay on the following theme: As in the ancient torch-race the runner, faint and exhausted, passed his torch to some comrade still untired, so in the history of our literature the torch has been passed onward from hand to hand, and never since Chaer's day has literature remained without a winess influenced by the past. FRENCH. FIRST PAPER. Professor Morris. 1. Translate into French Whichever of the two may have been theologically in the right, there are no two opinions on the question that Bossuet was in the wrong, both in the acrimony of his conduct and the violence of his language. In the latter respect, indeed, he brought down upon himself a welldeserved punishment. Fénelon was the mildest of men, but he possessed a faculty of quiet irony inferior to that of no man then living, and he used it with effect in the controversy against Bossuet's declamatory denunciations. When, however, the matter had been referred to the Pope, and judgment had been given against himself, Fénelon at once bowed to the decision and acknowledged his error. Louis, however, had many more reasons for disliking him than the mere odium theologicum with which Bossuet had inspired him. Fénelon was known to disapprove of much in the actual government of France, and the surreptitious publication of Télémaque completed his disgrace. 2. Write an account of François Villon. 3. Give a summary of Boileau's L'Art Poétique. 4. State the laws of the French Drama, and criticise them briefly. 5. Has Victor Hugo or Alexandre Dumas the better claim to be considered the beginner of the Romantic Movement? 6. Translate the following: (a) (b) Sabine. En est-ce fait, Julie? et que m'apportez-vous ? De tous les combattants a-t-il fait des hosties? Pour tous tant qu'ils étaient demande-t-il mes pleurs ? Julie. Quoi ce qui s'est passé, vous l'ignorez encore? Sabine. Vous faut-il étonner de ce que je l'ignore ? Il n'était pas besoin d'un si tendre spectacle; Andromaque. Hélas, tout m'abandonne! Allons, seigneur, marchons sur les pas d'Hermione. Céphise. Qu'attendez-vous ? Rompez ce silence obstiné. |