6. Account fully for the Latin superlatives inissimus, and the Greek in-raros. 7. Write down the probable declension of (i) *māter, (ii) yoikos, and account for any Greek and Latin forms which are not the phonetic equivalents. 8. Discuss any two of the following questions:(i) The s-aorist in I.-E., with its treatment in the classical languages. (ii) The Greek and Latin subjunctive forms and their relation to the original subjunctive. (iii) Ablaut in roots and stem-suffixes. (iv) The various forms found in Greek in the imperfect of εἰμί and of εἶμι. 9. Take the following sets of words and shew the exact phonetic and morphological relation which the words within each set bear to one another:— μαίνομαι, μέμαμενἔφθαρκα, ἔφθοραλύειν, λvoai, λeλvкévαi-dixe, dixisse, dici, dicere, dictu—σκέψομαι, σκοπήσω—ince880, incēdoἔΐσκειν, εἱκυῖαιτάνυται, τείνεται, tenditur Xεiooμai, exadov, prendo-precor, posco-escit, est που, ἔπει (ἔπῃ), ἔσπου, εἵπου-λελόγχᾶσι, λελόγχασι — βεβλήαται, βεβολημένος - honor, honestas-agis, agit, agimus, äɣeis, äyεi, äyoμev —sero, δευἰρήν, φρεσί. 10. Discuss the futures-deraι, Eei (Dor.), fecero, amabimini. ENGLISH.-Part I. Professor Morris. PASS AND FIRST HONOUR PAPER. 1. Henry the Fifth is regarded as Shakspeare's ideal ruler. What are the chief points of his character? 2. Explain the following passages from Henry the Fifth: (a) The Gordian knot. (b) A babbled o' green fields. (c) He is white-livered and red-faced. (d) The famous comparison between Macedon and Monmouth. (e) Nice customs curtsy to great kings. 3. In As You Like It, how does Shakspeare scoff at travellers? 4. Comment on the following passages from As You Like It: (a) My better parts Are all thrown down, and that which here stands up Is but a quintain. (b) I should bear no cross if I did bear you. (c) Call you em stanzoes? (d) I am here with thee and thy goats, as the most capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the Goths. (e) Your If is the only peace-maker. 5. Lycidas according to its form is pastoral. Is that the true character of the poem ? 6. Into what part of Milton's life do the Sonnets fall? In what way are they appropriate to it? 7. Quote examples of Macaulay's exaggerations. How far are they hurtful? Show that Macaulay prefers the concrete to the abstract. 8. Explain the terms-Sycophants, mayor of the palace, Lascars, caste, pundits, cantonment, engrossing, preposterous, syllogism, bang. 9. Explain the following passages from Carlyle :(a) He made the Spanish soldier who was guarding him scratch Dios on his thumbnail. (b) Sugar-plums of any kind in this world or the next. (c) The indifference you sometimes hear ascribed to Shakspeare. (d) Rousseau with his passionate appeals to mothers, with his Contrat-social, with his celebrations of Nature. (e) "The rank is but the guinea-stamp." 10. State briefly Carlyle's view of Shakspeare and of Burns. 11. What classes of words have come to English from Latin? At about what times and through what other languages? 12. Discuss the influence of Norman French on the grammar of English. ENGLISH.-PART II. Professor Morris. PASS AND FIRST HONOUR PAPER. 1. Write an Essay on one of the following themes: (1) A choice of Shakspeare's three greatest plays. (2) Is it good to have a literary king like Ben Jonson, Dryden, and Doctor Johnson ? 2. Tell briefly the story of Chaucer's life. In poetry who have been Chaucer's disciples? 3. What is the place of Allegory in English literature? 4. What lessons, moral and political, can be drawn from Coriolanus and what from Macbeth? 5. Estimate Dryden as a man, as a dramatist, as a poet, and as a prose-writer. 6. Write a brief account of the beginnings of the English novel. 7. Comment on the following passages from Coriolanus: (a) Because I am the store-house and the shop. (b) And my soul aches To know when two authorities are up, (c) Fortune's blows When most struck home, being gentle wounded craves A noble cunning. (d) The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle That's curdied by the frost from purest snow, And hangs on Dian's temple. And the following from Macbeth :- (f) Things without all remedy Should be without regard. (9) All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. 8. Give the substance of Bacon's Essay "Of Parents and Children," or that "Of Delays." 9. (a) “Well of pure English undefiled." From whom quoted by Washington Irving, and said of whom? (b) With whom does Charles Lamb acknowledge imperfect sympathies ? (c) "Sire, your character is a constitution for your country, and your conscience its guaranty." Who said this, and what was the answer? (d) Give the substance of Thackeray's remarks on Macaulay. (e) Whom does M. Arnold suggest as fellowvoyagers in the Mayflower with the Pilgrim Fathers? Is it quite a fair suggestion? (f) "He read his classics not like a collegian, but like a man of the world." Wherein consists the difference? |