B. A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, 1874.

MONDAY, 9TH FEB., 10 A.M. TO 1 P.M.

ENGLISH POETRY.

W. E. ORMSBY, LL.D.

I. From what source did Shakespeare derive the chief incidents of the drama of King John? Sketch very briefly the plot, following the division of the play into Acts.

II. Explain the meaning of the italicized words in the passages given below :

(a.) Which now the manage of two kingdoms must

With fearful bloody issue arbitrate.

(b.) For new-made honours doth forget men's names ;

'Tis too respective, and too sociable,

For your conversion.

(c.) At our importance hither is he come.

(d.) And then we shall repent each drop of blood

That hot rash haste so indirectly shed.

(e.) Thou hast underwrought his lawful king.

By our best eyes cannot be censured.

(9.) Lest that their hopes prodigiously be crossed.
(h.) And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy
Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice,
Which scorns a modern invocation.

(i.) To guard a title that was rich before.
I must withdraw and weep

(5.)

Upon the spot of this enforced cause. (k.) Ah, foul shrewd news.

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III. Annotate the following, in every case pointing out the allusions.

That in mine ear I durst not stick a rose,

Lest men should say, Look where three farthings goes.
(b.) A half-faced groat five hundred pounds a year!
(c.) Colbrand the giant that same mighty man?
(d.) Knight, knight, good mother-Basilisco-like
What! I am dubbed.

(e.) One, that will play the devil, Sir, with you.
An a' may catch your hide and you alone,
You are the hare of whom the proverb goes.
(f.) It ill-beseems this presence to cry aim!
(9.) Do like the mutines of Jerusalem

Be friends awhile.

IV. What references to popular games or pastimes are to be found in the play of "King John"? In what sense are the words given below used in the play? Mention those which have undergone a change of meaning since Shakespeare's time, and trace that change. Diffidence; owe; painfully; minion; humourous; gracious; remorse. V. Write explanatory notes on the following passages, and show the connexion in which they occur :

(a.) But that two-handed engine at the door

Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. (b.) When the great Vision of the guarded Mount, Looks towards Namancos and Bayona's hold;

Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth;

(c.) Such notes, as warbled to the string,

Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek,

And made hell grant what love did seek.

(d.) And storied windows richly dight

Casting a dim religious light.

VI. "It has been said, I think very fairly," says Mr. Hallam, "that Lycidas is a good test of a real feeling for what is peculiarly called poetry. Many, or perhaps, we might say most readers do not taste its excellence." Consider shortly the justice of the foregoing.

VII. Quote lines from L'Allegro or Il Penseroso, illustrating the following:

(a.) The green leaves quiver in the cooling wind

And make a chequered shadow on the ground.

(d.) Then thou our fancy of itself bereaving

Dost make us marble with too much conceiving.
Milton, Epitaph on Shakespeare.

VIII. Paraphrase the following

But for the main, here found they covert drear,
Scarce images of life, one here, one there,
Lay vast and edgeways; like a dismal cirque
Of druid stones, upon a forlorn moor,
When the chill rain begins at shut of eve,

In dull November, and their chancel vault,

The heaven itself, is blended throughout night.

IX. What estimate have you formed of the poetical genius of Keat's. Illustrate your answer where you can by quotations from, or references to, his "Hyperion."

MONDAY, 9TH FEB., 2 TO 5 P.M.

ENGLISH PROSE.

JOHN BRADSHAW, M.A.

BACON's Essays; BURKE's Speech at Bristol; and FOSTER'S Essay on Decision of Character.

I. (a.) Write down succinctly the substance of Bacon's Essay Of Superstition (either adhering closely to Bacon's style and diction, or rendering it in modern English.)

(b.) Give as accurately as you can Burke's panegyric on Howard.

(c.) Give Foster's estimate of Howard.

For what traits in his character is his example commended? How does Foster defend him from what some have regarded as a fault in his character?

II. Paraphrase so as to render the meaning quite clear:

(a.) "It is not only the difficulty and labour which men take in finding out of truth; nor again, that, when it is found,

it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies into favour."

(b.) "It is good that a man's face give his tongue leave to
speak."

(c.) "Dangers are no more light, if they once seem light."
(a.) "Deformed persons are commonly even with nature."
(e.) "It is a thing of great patience, but of much use."
(Apart from the contest, (e) is capable of two mean-
ings ?)

III. (a.) Re-write (without paraphrasing) 'the following passage, using instead of each of the italicised pronouns the word or expression that it stands for :

"It is often seen that bad husbands have very good wives; whether it be that it raiseth the price of their husbands' kindness when it comes; or that the wives take a pride in their patience; but this never fails, if the bad husbands were of their own choosing, against their friends' consent, for then they will be sure to make good their own folly."

(b.) Write down the modern expression that would be used instead of 'in respect of' in each of the following connexions :

(1.)

(2.)

"The whole Senate dedicated an altar to friendship, as to a goddess, in respect of the great dearness of friendship between them."

"Timing of the suit is the principal [mean of obtaining]; timing, I say, not only in respect of the person who should grant it, but in respect of those who are like to cross it."