6. Deal fully with the history of I.-E. s, ns, ¿ in Greek and Latin. 7. Shew the difficulties in the way of discovering the original shape and meaning of stem-forming suffixes. 8. Decline *ekuā and *bhrūs, adding the corresponding Greek and Latin declension, and comment on any variations. 9. Shew how the moods were formed in I.-E., and state what traces of the optative are to be found in Latin. ENGLISH.-PART I. Professor Morris. 1. Make a table of the Teutonic languages. 2. Explain and illustrate the difference between a synthetical and an analytical language. 3. Trace the origin of the following words:Alchemy, alligator, bantam, battledore, cipher, folio, orange, précis, tea, volcano. 4. What special qualities do you note in Landor's prose? 5. What do you know about Godiva, Roger Ascham, Filippo Lippi? 6. Explain and comment on (a) Achilles. Wife of Menelaus! My mother is reported to have left about me only one place vulnerable: I have at last found where it is. (b) I, sitting in idleness on a cliff of Rhodes, eyed the sun as he swang his golden censer athwart the heavens, or his image as it overstrode the sea. (c) The star of Berenice shone above him! Swell'd thro' the darken'd chamber; 'twas not 7. Comment freely on the following: "England is the home of As You Like It, with all its visions of the Forest of Arden and heavenly Rosalind." 8. Explain the following (a) The duke is humorous. (b) I am ambitious for a motley coat. (c) Helen's cheek, but not her heart, Cleopatra's majesty, Atalanta's better part, Sad Lucretia's modesty. (d) When earthly things made even Atone together. 9. Comment fully on the following stanza : He feels from Juda's land The dreaded Infant's hand, The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyn; Nor all the gods beside Longer dare abide, Not Typhon huge ending in snaky twine: Our Babe to show his Godhead true, Can in his swaddling bands control the damned crew. 10. Write a full note on each of the following words :— Buxom, diapason, equipage, phylacteries, sock, virtuous. 11. Give the substance of (a) Arbuthnot's comments on the Partition Treaty. (b) Macaulay's account of Peterborough's nature. 12. Explain the meaning of the following: Diplomatist, Jacobite, Kit Cat Club, Wooden Spoon. ENGLISH.-PART II. Professor Morris. 1. Write an Essay on "The Essay in English Literature." 2. Write a full note on each of the following passages: (a) Scarce other than my king's ideal knight. 3. Explain fully what is meant by "Paracelsus attains." 4. Why did Browning introduce the character of Lady Carlisle ? 5. (a) Quote from Paracelsus the lines about the bird, the two points in the adventure of the diver, and about "Michal's face." (b) Explain Well, well; 'tis not my world! Morn must be near. I have tried each way singly: now for both. 6. Write a short life of William Hazlitt. 7. Briefly describe the prose style of Milton, of Addison, and of Lamb. 8. Comment on the following words: Apologue, chimera, collyrium, euphuistic, kennel, runes, sensibility, succedaneum, spunging house, usquebaugh. 9. Write an explanatory note on six of the following passages, and name the author of each of the six : (a) It was excellently said of Plutarch, poetry was a speaking picture, and picture a mute poesy. (b) Shipwrights and boatmakers will choose those crooked pieces of timber which other carpenters refuse. (c) If heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms. (d) Consider whereabouts thou art in Cebes' table or that old philosophical pinax of the life of man. (e) Human life is at the greatest and best but like a froward child. (f) He looked extremely thin in a dearth of news, and never enjoyed himself in a westerly wind. (9) Secretly kissing his hand to some great fish— his Dagon. (h) Under this eminent man, whom in Greek I cognominated Cyclops diphrelates. (i) To sit down with all the premeditation of Master Stephen, able to enjoy much of what somebody calls the "ecstasy of woe." |