n. Would not 'scape censure, nor the redresses sleep, Might in their working do you that offence..." "Look, where my abridgments come. O, my old friend! Thy face is valiant since I saw thee last.. What! my young lady and mistress! By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer heaven than when I saw you last by the altitude of a chopine. Pray God, your voice, like a piece of uncurrent gold, be not cracked within the ring." 0. p. "Even then this forked plague is fated to us, When we do quicken." “Madam, an if my brother had my shape, my face so thin That in mine ear I durst not stick a rose, Lest men should say, 'Look, where three-farthings goes' " "We are likely to prove a goodly commodity, being taken up of these men's bills." As o'erdyed blacks, as wind, as waters; false 3. Write explanatory notes on the italicised words in the following quotations from Shakespeare and Milton : a. b. 8. d. e. f. g. h. "Lawn as white as driven snow, "Mine honesty and I begin to square." "And then they fly, or die, like scaled sculls "Our discontented counties do revolt." "I was never curst." "Soon, at five o'clock, Please you, I'll meet with you upon the mart." "Tell me in sadness, who is that you love." "Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars." i. "These knights will hack, and so thou should'st not alter the article 4. State from what writers the following passages are taken, and explain the allusions they contain :— a. b. C. "Had in him those brave translunary things A penetrating, keen, and sly "The deepest, plainest, highest, clearest pen; ... d. "There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." e. f. g. h. i. "While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, The axe's edge did try : Nor call'd the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed." "In vain our factious priests the cant revive; To inflame the crowd; while he with watchful eye "His eldest hope, with every grace adorn'd, By me, so Heaven will have it, always mourn'd, And always honour'd,-snatch'd in manhood's prime By unequal fates and providence's crime; Yet not before the goal of honour won, All parts fulfill'd of subject and of son; Swift was the race, but short the time to run." "Nature and law, by thy divine decree With this dim diadem invested me." "His conversation, wit and parts, His knowledge in the noblest useful arts, j. k. 7. Were such, dead authors could not give, But habitudes of those that live; The most learn'd with shame confess Who justly knew to blame or to commend; essay'd; scarce vanish'd out of sight, He buoys up instant, and returns to light; And mounts far off among the swans of Thames." 5. Explain the structure of the Spenserean stanza, of the tercet (or terza rima), and of Rithme Royall. Describe the strictly proper form of the Sonnet, and mention the more or less legitimate varieties. The Candidates were further examined vivâ voce, as follows, on the English Language and the History of English Literature: 1. Chaucer, in his "Court of Love," speaks of the "Craft of Galfride""Poemes of Virgil taken here no rote, Ne craft of Galfride may not here sojourn." Whom does he mean? 2. By what poetical work is this "Galfride" best known? and what was the object of it? 3. What old chronicle has Mr. Carlyle taken for the foundation of his "Past and Present"? 4. What is the oldest work now known to exist in English on any branch of science? 5. Mr. Craik quotes a manuscript treatise to illustrate the English of the fourteenth century; the title is "Ayenbyte of Inwyt." What does this mean? 6. Speaking of the work entitled "The Complaint of Scotland," Mr. Craik observes on a feature in which all the specimens of the Scottish dialect up to its publication differ from the modern Scottish? 7. What internal evidence of date do we find in Shakspeare's "Henry the Fifth"? 8. In what play of Shakspeare does Gurney appear? and what is the significance of his appearance? 9. In which of his plays has Ben Jonson ridiculed the euphuistic style of speech? 10. Hallam inclines to think that Shakspeare has occasionally caught this style, when he does not intend to make it ridiculous? 11. To what source does the plot of the "Two Gentlemen of Verona” appear to be traceable? 12. Whom does Hallam pronounce to have been the most learned Englishman, in profane literature, of the reign of Elizabeth? 13. What, according to Hallam, is the earliest instance of English poetical satire? 14. Hallam enumerates Phaer, Golding, and Stanihurst as translators; what authors did they render into English? 15. In one passage Shakspeare appears to have had Golding's " Ovid" before him? 16. Who was the author of the book called "Timber," and what is the nature of it? 17. A Scotsman named Bellenden, in the reign of James I., was the author of a meritorious work de Statu; how was attention recalled to it at the close of the last century? 18. "And that, unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!" Who is the author of this often-quoted couplet? 19. Mr. Craik remarks that there is another work in our literature with which Phineas Fletcher's poem might more properly be compared than with the "Faery Queen"? 20. Mr. Craik quotes a striking piece, commencing "The time draws near and hasteth on, In which strange works shall be begun." Who was the author? 21. What English book has been said to be worth all the Ana of the Continent? 22. Which of Cowley's pieces is particularly noticed by Hallam as exhibiting the excellence of his prose style? 23. Of only two of Milton's sonnets will Johnson admit that they are not bad; which are those? 24. Johnson remarks that Milton is happy in the speeches he attributes to Satan; in what respect? 25. Johnson remarks on Milton's way of handling his similitudes, and illustrates his remarks by an example? 26. Dryden himself said that one character in his "Absalom and Achitophel" was worth the whole poem ? 27. Who is Amiel in that poem? 28. On what three plays, according to Hallam, does the dramatic fame of Dryden rest? 29. In what earlier work do we find the basis of Locke's "Essay on Government"? 30. What writer did Dryden profess to have taken for his standard of English prose? 31. On what models does Mr. Hallam consider him to have formed his style? 32. The alterations in the second edition of Dryden's "Essay on Dramatic Poesy" are interesting, as showing us the changes which were gra dually working in the English language; one in particular is noticed by Mr. Hallam? 33. Lord Macaulay says-" During the latter half of the seventeenth century there were only two minds in England which possessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree." Whom does he mean? 34. To whom, next after Dryden, has the highest place amongst the polite writers of the period between the Restoration and the end of the century been commonly given ? 35. Whom does Mr. Craik consider the most eminent Scottish writer of the period between the Restoration and the Revolution? 36. What, according to Mr. Hallam, was the most solid book written in any country on the famous controversy respecting ancient and modern learning? 37. What celebrated book first appeared as an appendix to Wotton's treatise ? 38. Mr. Hallam says of Walton's "Complete Angler"—"It is a model which one of the most famous among our late philosophers, and a successful disciple of Isaac Walton in his favourite art, has condescended to imitate." Whom does he mean? 39. Swift, says Mr. Craik, had made himself known in the last years of the reign of King William by a political pamphlet in favour of the ministry of the day. To what publication does he thus refer? 40. With what object are Gay's Pastorals said to have been written? 41. Whom does Hallam consider to have been Swift's model in his "Gulliver's Travels"? 42. Who is the Appius of Pope? What made the name appropriate ? 43. "How Van wants grace that never wanted wit.” Who is Van? and what is considered his best work? 44. "On poets' tombs see Benson's titles writ." What is the allusion in this line? 45. "Norton, from Daniel and Ostræa sprung." Who is Norton ? 46. When Pope says, "Cremona now shall ever boast thy name, whom is he apostrophizing? 47. By what comparison does Macaulay illustrate his saying that Johnson did not think in the dialect in which he wrote for publication? 48. "Tristram Shandy" was sharply censured for its obscenity and pertness by an eminent contemporary of Sterne? 49. In the "Vicar of Wakefield," Olivia says she is not altogether unversed in controversy-she has read the disputes between Thwackum and Square. Where are these to be found? 50. She goes on to say, she is now reading the controversy in "Religious Courtship." Who was the author of that book? |