FIRST EXAMINATION IN ARTS, DEC. 1878.

MONDAY, 16th DEC., 10 A.M. TO 1 P.M.

ENGLISH POETRY.

JOHN BRADSHAW, MA., LL.D.

THE TEMPEST; PARADISE LOST, BOOK II; AND LYTTON'S SECRET WAY.

I. (a.) The Tempest may be regarded as a great allegory, and various interpretations of the allegorical significance of the several characters have been proposed. Mention at least two for Prospero and one for Caliban.

(b.)-A recent critic interprets the character of Ferdinand as

representing Fletcher, and Prospero as intended for Shakespere.-Who was Fletcher ? and what resemblances are found in the acts and speeches of Prospero to justify the latter interpretation ?

(c.)-The Ariel of Goethe's Faust may be contrasted with the Ariel of the Tempest. In the former he calls upon his attendant elfish spirits to prepare the soul of Faust for renewed energy by bathing him in the dews of Lethe, and by driving back remorse. Contrast, on the other hand, how Shakespere's Ariel works upon the human conscience and complete the following passage :

Ling'ring perdition (worse than any death

Can be at once) shall step by step attend

You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from
(Which here in this most desolate isle, else falls

Upon your heads) is nothing, but

(d.)-Two main ideas (each of which may be expressed by a

single word) run through the Tempest, forming as it were the key-note to the Play?

(e)-The Epilogue gives echo to them, and falls in with the moral purport of the whole ?

II. (a.)-Give the characteristics of Mammon and Beelzebub as pourtrayed by Milton; and (b.) show how the proposal of each in the Council bore out his character. (c.) Moloch adduces two objections that might be raised to his counsel, and replies to them. State (in prose) the objections and his replies.

III. (a)-Give in direct narration the substance of the conversation between Omartes and the priest after the former refused the terms of Zariades, beginning

"And rightly," said the King,

"Did thy prophetic mind rebuke vain-glory."

(b.)-Give (in prose, but as nearly in the words of the original as you can) the reply of Zariades to the traitorous offer of Seuthes.

(c.)-(1.) What experiment does Bulwer Lytton say he
attempted as regards the metre of the Lost
Tales?

(2.) He refers to an example by a great poet ?
(3.) What reasons does he assign for rejecting hexa-
meter and alternate hexameter and penta-
meter?

(4.) What does he say his object was in selecting the
rythm he has adopted in these Tales?

IV. Explain by a free paraphrase, but without omitting any

Though every drop of water swear against it.

(2.) Though with their high wrongs I am strook to

the quick,

Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury

Do I take part; the rarer action is

In virtue than in vengeance.

(3.) You brother mine, that entertained ambition,
Expelled remorse and nature.

(4.) Will he, so wise, let loose at once his ire,
Belike through impotence or unaware,

(5.)

To give his enemies their wish, and end
Them in his anger, whom his anger

Saves to punish endless ?

Let us not then pursue,

By force impossible, by leave obtained
Unacceptable, though in Heaven, our state
Of splendid vassalage.

(6.) Before mine eyes in opposition sits

(7.)

Grim Death, my son and foe, who sets them on,
And me, his parent, would full soon devour,
For want of other prey, but that he knows

His end with mine involved.

Truth so fills this soul

It could not lodge a falsehood even in dream.

(8.) Make mine such talismans and spells,
As banish from the soul

Dreams that annul its longing for the Daylight.

(9.) Soon in that dark pass

Marched war, led under rampired walls by treason.

V. Explain the allusions in the first four and the italicised words in the last two of the following:-referring in each case to a passage in one of your three Texts in which the reference or usage is similar:

(1.)

(3.)

(4.)

no evil thing that walks by night

Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost
That breaks his magic chains at curfew time-
Comus.

What was that snaky-headed Gorgon shield

That wise Minerva wore

-Ib.

Amber stream,

The drink of none but Kings-Par. Regained.

By Demogorgon's name,

At which ghosts quake

Hear and appear!—

-Dryden.

(5.) It [the ghost] faded on the crowing of the cockHamlet.

(6.) Do not believe his vows, for they are brokers,— Not of the eye which their investments show. Ib.

VI. (a.)-Give the meanings of the italicised words in the following connections :-(1) we cannot miss him; (2) wicked dew; (3) Is the storm over-blown? (4)

now I want spirits to enforce, art to enchant.

(b.)-State and illustrate the senses in which Milton uses(1.) Venturous (2.) Evasion (3.) Prodigious (4.) Reduce (5.) Success (6.) Converse.

(c.)-Cite three Latin constructions from Paradise Lost.

(d.)-To illustrate what is reference made in the Second Book-to Tantalus ; the Caspian; Lapland; and Bellona ?

VII. (a.)-Quote from the Tempest one example of each of the following:

(1.) A grammatical inflection now discarded.

(2.) A word the accent of which has since changed. (3.) A word then being introduced which has since been more Anglicised in form (e. g. salvage now savage.)

(4.) The prefix in—with a word where we now use un. (5.)—A word then used literally, now metaphorically

only.

(b.)— Point out in each of the following a peculiarity of the grammar or construction of Shakespere's day :

I should sin

To think but nobly of my grandmother.

Therefore wast thou

(1.)

(2.)

(3.)

On their sustaining garments not a blemish,
But fresher than before.

Deservedly confined into this rock.

VIII. (1.) Quote Milton's simile for the silence that reigned

when Beelzebub rose to address the assembly.