English Literature. Senior. AS YOU LIKE IT. 1. Junior Paper, No. 1. 2. Junior Paper, No. 2. 3. Junior Paper, No. 3. 4. Annotate fully the following passages, assigning each to the proper speaker: (a) (b) (c) (d) ""Tis not her glass, but you that flatters her, And out of you, she sees herself more proper Even by the squandering glances of the fool." If their purgation did consist in words, "If he, compact of jars, grow musical, We shall have shortly discord in the spheres." 5. What metre is employed by Shakespeare? Scan the following lines : "And I did laugh sans intermission." (a) (b) "Or what is he of basest function That says his bravery is not of my cost?" English Grammar. Senior. 1. What is the function of Conjunctions? classified? How are they 2. What are the rules of Syntax relating to Nouns? 3. Junior Paper, No. 4. 4. Correct the errors in the following passages: Neither Mary nor Jane were here yesterday. Who are you speaking of? English Language and Literature. Higher Local. (a) SHAKESPEARE, TEMPEST; (b) BACON, ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING, BOOK I.; (c) ADDISON, SPECTATOR, CRITICAL ESSAYS; (d) HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. (a) 1. (i.) Show briefly from the nature of Shakespeare's versification in "The Tempest" that this play is one of his latest works. (ii.) Name any books by contemporary writers to which Shakespeare was probably indebted in this playgiving your reasons. 2. Give the derivation of foison, prologue, quaint, and explain the expression, go a bat-fowling. 3. Paraphrase and explain with reference to the context(i.) "I myself could make A chough of as deep chat." (ii.)" Seb. But, for your conscience? "Ant.: Ay, sir, where lies that.? If 'twere a kibe (iii.) "I am more serious than my custom; you (b) 1. "Books," Bacon tells us, "ought to have no patrons but truth and reason." Describe, and show how he would justify, his own dedication to James I. 2. Give the substance of Bacon's remarks on the poverty of learned men. What authorities does he quote on the question, and how? 3. What use does Bacon make of the following quotations ?— (i.) "He could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great state." (ii.) "Abeunt Studia in mores." (iii.) "It was the fault of Dionysius that had his ears in his feet." (iv.) "Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.' (v.) "Satis magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus." (c) 1. "Cowley was one of the most popular of the so-called metaphysical poets." Explain this, showing the chief characteristics of their style, and give an example of the "wit" for which they are noted. 2. Draw, in your own words, a clear distinction between true and false wit. 3. Explain the terms: Mob-readers, ambergrease, limbec, double rhymes, pulvillios; and account for the fact that the Temple in the Region of False Wit was built after the Gothic manner. (d) 1. "The vision of Piers Ploughman derives its interest partly from its literary form, partly from the moral and social bearings of its subject-in short, from its connection with the actual life and opinion of its time." Enlarge upon this in a brief essay. 2. Give a short account of Gower's Confessio Amantis. SPECIAL PERIOD. 3. Give the heads for an essay on Marlowe as a dramatist. What is meant by his Mighty Line? 4. Name and comment briefly on the dramatic writings of Greene. English Language. SWEET, ANGLO-SAXON READER; ELFRIC ON THE OLD 1. Give the Anglo-Saxon for a hundred and ten and a hundred and twenty, and account for the form hund-nigon-tig. 2. What changes have taken place in the English language concerning the words thou and you? "Vain pomp and glory of the world, I hate ye.' Is this use of ye found in the earlier language? 3. Decline throughout the Anglo-Saxon equivalent for the definite article. Under what form does the plural remain in the language? How do you account for such provincialisms as " They stones are sharp"? 4. Describe the uses of an and sum in earlier and later AngloSaxon; and explain how his differs from min and in with respect to adjectival declension. 5. Compare the old and modern uses of self, other, and who. 6. Translate into Anglo-Saxon : (a) In the same year he was killed by the hands of his wise men. (b) On the second day the holy apostle went into a certain city. (c) The two brothers, and twelve thousand heathen men, were added to Christ's belief. 7. Give in modern English :-Ælfric, 11. 357-379, 389-407, 455-475, 527-550, 557-563. 8. Derive :-Bigspellboc, arleaze, bysmore, Drihten; and modern dizzy, rack (in the phrase rack and ruin), gospel. Does the Anglo-Saxon word fex still remain in the language? 9. Draw up a table showing the place of English in the Teutonic family. Latin. Junior. VIRGIL, AENEID V.; CÆSAR DE BELLO GALLICO I. 1. Translate Aeneid, v. 613-625, and 709-719; De Bello Gallico, ch. 47. est 2. Give the English equivalents of the following :— Hostibus pugnandi potestatem fecit; comminus pugnatum ; nec dona moror. 3. Explain the construction of the following passages :Gens dura atque aspera cultu (a) Debellanda tibi Latio est. (b) Animos nil magnae laudis egentes. 4. To what circumstance does Virgil allude in the following passage? Tertius Eurytion, tuus, o clarissime, frater, Pandare, qui quondam jussus confundere foedus In medios telum torsisti primus Achivos. 5. Explain fully the arrangement of the Roman Calendar. Write, in Latin, March 12th, 1884. 6. Parse: Ibi perpauci viribus confisi tranare contenderunt. 7. Senior question 6. 8. Senior question 8. 9. Translate: (i) He gave them three drachmæ each. (ii) Having left the city, he encamped in the fields. (iii) Six thousand men were killed during the consulship of Caius. 10. Translate : Columbae saepe quum fugissent milvium Et genus inerme tali decepit dolo: 66 Quare sollicitum potius aevum ducitis Qui, regnum adeptus, coepit vesci singulas, |