9. Make remarks upon the following constructions :Integer vitae, abstineto irarum, eripe te morae, quid libet impotens sperare, nunc saliaribus ornare pulvinar deorum tempus erat dapibus, fidentem fuga Parthum, quibus Hector ab oris exspectate venis, maior videri.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.— PART I.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Write a character of Orsino, Duke of Illyria.

2. What was Maria's estimate of Malvolio? What view of him was taken by Charles Lamb?

3. Explain the words coranto, geck, grise, malapert,

proper.

4. Comment on the following passages

(1) Duke.

so full of shapes is fancy

That it alone is high fantastical.

(2) Sir Toby. Art thou good at these kickshawses, knight?

(3) Clown. Mercury endue thee with leasing. (4) Malvolio. Daylight and champain discover not

more.

(5) Clown. A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit.

(6) Antonio. Thou hast, Sebastian, done good

feature shame.

(7) Duke. A natural perspective, that is and is not.

5. Refer the following lines to their respective poems. Explain the meaning of the first four:

(1) Another race hath been, and other palms are won. (2) Where yeomen dight the woodland cheer. (3) Low sculks the hind beneath the rage of power. (4) Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine. (5) The One remains, the many change and pass. (6) Princes and lords are but the breath of kings. (7) And Melancholy marked him for her own. (8) Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies.

6. Account for the spelling of harbinger, could, sovereign. What is the force of the prefix in bespeak, forbid? Account for the forms "manteau" in the Rape of the Lock, and "energic" in Collins.

7. Explain the words in italics in the following passages :

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

The shepherds on the lawn,

Or ere the point of dawn

Sate simply chatting in a rustic row.

Nor is Osiris seen

In Memphian grove or green

Trampling the unshowr'd grass with lowings

loud.

If Jonson's learned sock be on.

Or call up him that left half told

The story of Cambuscan bold.

Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail.

8. Give the meanings of the following words :Baws'nt, brock, clinches, rebeck, Rosicrucians,

sconce; and the derivations of the following:anthem, chagrin, debauch, equipage, influence, lampoon.

9. Write a short comment on each of the following passages, showing especially how each is an instance of a different feature in Macaulay's style:

(1) Towns spring up in the East with the rapidity of the prophet's gourd.

(2) The besiegers, drunk with enthusiasm, drunk with bang, rushed to the attack.

(3) The day broke. The Nabob had slept off his debauch.

(4) "By God, Mr. Chairman," he exclaimed, "at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation."

(5) He thought the years already wasted on hexameters and pentameters quite sufficient.

(6) This young woman, born under the Arctic circle, was destined to play the part of a queen under the tropic of Cancer.

10. Explain fully the words-crimp, diplomatic, engrossing, Macaroni, poltroon.

11. Explain the allusions—

(1) The story which Ugolino told in the sea of everlasting ice.

(2) A Grampound election.

(3) Caput lupinum.

(4) Not only had she been compelled to acknowledge the independence of thirteen colonies,

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peopled by her children, and to conciliate the Irish by giving up the right of legislating for

them.

(5) There were seen side by side the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age.

12. What poets were at school with Warren Hastings? Write a short account of the most important of them. Give a short statement of the relations

of Dr. Johnson and Warren Hastings.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.PART II.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Who wrote the following:-The Bothie of Toberna-vuolich, Bracebridge Hall, the Cenci, Chastelard, Christabel, the Curse of Kehama, Dreamfaces, Dream of Gerontius, Empedocles on Etna, the History of Federal Government, Hyperion, King Victor and King Charles, Lalla Rookh, Lara, Lotos-Eaters, the Monk, Parisina, Past and Present, Pride and Prejudice, Representative Men, Rosabelle, Songs of Innocence, Unto this last, the Virginians?

2. Who wrote the following lines? explanation of each :

(1) But I beneath a rougher sea

Give a short

And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he.

(2) Weary of love, of life, devoured with spleen, I rest a perfect Timon, not nineteen.

(3) She was a phantom of delight.

(4) I came as one whose thoughts half linger,
Half run before,

The youngest to the oldest singer
That England bore.

(5) These laurels greener from the brow
Of him that uttered nothing base.

(6) The idle singer of an empty day.

3. Contrast as to life, work, and style, Carlyle, De Quincey, and Macaulay.

4. Write an account of the writings in prose and verse of James Russell Lowell.

5. Add a short note to each of the following:

the traitor Gan, euphuisms, heritable jurisdictions, Roman conclave, well of pure English undefiled, Wynkyn de Worde, Two kings of Brentford smelling at one rose.

6. (1)

my gusto too excited

"To sit a guest with Daniel at his pulse." (2) Neither gods, men, nor booksellers can doubt the necessity of a middleman between Mr. Bentham and the public.

(3) We may not win the bâton or epaulettes; but God give us strength to guard the honour of the flag!

(4) The terror of cloudless noon, the emerald of Polycrates.

(5) The axioms of an English debating club