(b) Qui cum de prona praeceps est valle volutus, Cum gravis exustos aestus hiulcat agros: Tollite, o pueri, faces. Io Hymen Hymenaee.' Quae tibi sine serviat, Io Hymen Hymenaee, Io Hymen Hymenaee. Usque dum tremulum movens Omnia omnibus annuat. Io Hymen Hymenaee, Io Hymen Hymenaee. Transfer omine cum bono Io Hymen Hymenaee. 7. Translate, with necessary remarks (a) Hoc ut dixit, Amor sinistra ut ante Dextram sternuit approbationem. (b) Vos convivia lauta sumptuose De die facitis? (c) Furi, villula nostra non ad Austri 8. Explain chommoda, litterator, umbilici, conturbabimus, hic merus est Thyonianus, orgia, libratum tereti versabat turbine fusum. 9. Translate the following unprepared passage:- In partem praedamque Iovem. Tum litore curvo ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. PART I. The Board of Examiners. 1. Give the derivations of-caterpillar, jousts, liege, livery, miscreant, pawn (both senses), purchase. Where different etymologies have been proposed, give them. "Attorneys-general," "letters patents." Comment on the grammar and the meaning. 2. In the following passage explain the force of the epithets (a) All my treasury is yet but unfelt thanks. (b) Frighting her pale-faced villages with war. (c) To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown. (d) Thy very beadsmen learn to bend their bows Of double-fatal yew against thy state. What is the meaning of "beadsmen”? (e) Thieves are not judged but they are by to hear Although apparent guilt be seen in them. 3. What political lessons can be drawn from Richard II., and from characters in the play? 4. What does Shakespeare mean by "the Antipodes"? Quote from Richard II. and from Midsummer Night's Dream. 5. What idea have you formed of the appearance and character of Hippolyta ? 6. Explain "hold or cut bowstrings," "give us your neaf," "Will it please you to see the epilogue, or to hear Can you justify the spelling "apricock," and in 7. Comment on the language or the meaning of the following: (1) On this very ground where we are now reposing, they who conducted me hither told me, the fatal prize of beauty was awarded.—(Achilles to Helena.) (2) The barbarity of thy soldiers is nothing to me. Mine would not dare be cruel. Hannibal is forced to be absent; and his authority goes away with his horse. (Marcellus.) (3) Love is a secondary passion in those who love most, a primary in those who love least.(R. Ascham.) (4) The swains admired What so transversely could have swept the dew. 8. What is the meaning of the following words used by Landor, and from what sources do they come ? carnival, chalice, hind, platan, seneschal, unamerced, villeggiatura. What is the meaning of Landor's names-Cymodameia, Enallos, Ione? 9. Comment on the following (from Macaulay), explaining the allusions and pointing out anything characteristic in the style: (1) The narrowest strait was to his power what it was of old believed that a running stream was to the sorceries of a witch. (2) The Pyrenees have ceased to exist. (3) Which had raised the widow of a buffoon to be the consort of the proudest of kings. (4) The scene of Essex's glory. (5) The wooden spoon of this year would puzzle a senior wrangler of the reign of George the Second. 10. Write a character of the Earl of Peterborough. 11. Write a note on each of the following expressions and names, taken from Carlyle : Sansculottism, Valkyrs, Islam, Runes, Banyantree, Cagliostro, pie-powder courts, the three days of July. 12. What is your own opinion about Carlyle's "Lectures on Heroes"? ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.— PART II. The Board of Examiners. 1. Describe the characteristics of the genius and style of Chaucer. 2. Give a short account of each of the following books: Ascham's Schoolmaster, Lyly's Euphues, the Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. B |