SET L.

1. Are Anglo-Saxon and English different languages? or what is their relation to one another? (206.)

2. "The Batavian territory, conquered from the waves and defended against them by human art, was in extent little superior to the principality of Wales; but all that narrow space was a busy and populous hive, in which new wealth was every day created, and in which vast masses of old wealth were hoarded."-Macaulay.

(a) How many different sentences are contained in the above? Assign each to its proper class.

(b) Parse the words in italics.

3. When should the word the be considered as an adverb? Give instances. (30.)

SCHOLARSHIP.

SET A.

(Two hours and a half allowed for this paper.)

No abbreviation of less than three letters to be used in parsing or analysis. All candidates must do the composition, parsing, and analysis.

COMPOSITION.

Write a letter, or an essay, on one of the following subjects :

(a) Your favourite flowers, and the way to cultivate them.

(b) The moral lessons of the microscope and the telescope.

(c) The advantages and disadvantages of town life as compared with life in the country.

(d) Examinations. (159.)

GRAMMAR.

1. Parse the words in italics in the following passage, not omitting to give and explain their syntax :

"Breathes there a man with soul so dead

Who never to himself hath said,

This is my own, my native land!

Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned
As home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no minstrel raptures swell!

High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth, as wish can claim,
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,

Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.'

2. Analyse either the first or the last half of the above passage into its component sentences, and show in separate columns—

(a) The nature of the sentence.

(b) (If dependent) its relation to the principal sentence.

(c) Subject.

(e) Predicate.

(g) Object (if any).

(d) Its enlargements (if any).
(f) Its extensions (if any).

(h) Its enlargements (if any). (95.)

3. Explain by a paraphrase, or otherwise, the portion of the passage which you take for analysis. (177.)

4. Examine and illustrate the etymology of any five of the following words from the above: Own, native, whose, heart, foreign, minstrel, raptures, titles, boundless, claim, wretch, concentred, forfeit, renown. (127-144.)

5. Distinguish common, proper, and abstract nouns,-cardinal and ordinal numbers,-intransitive and neuter verbs,-continuative and disjunctive conjunctions, personal, possessive, reflexive, and relative pronouns.

6. It is often said that English is less of an inflected language in its latter than in its earlier stages. Explain what is meant by this, and give a few instances of inflexion in English as now spoken. (61.)

7. Show by examples how analysis helps us to parse correctly. (90.)

8. At which periods, and in connection with what events, in the history of this island, did the most important changes take place in the language of the inhabitants? Illustrate your answer. (202-238.)

SET B.

(Directions as in A.)

COMPOSITION.

Write a letter, or an essay, on one of the following subjects :

(a) Singing birds.

(b) Fairy tales.

(c) Best way of spending holidays.

(d) Advantages of the study and knowledge of geography. (159.)

GRAMMAR.

1. Parse the words in italics in the following passage, not omitting

to give and explain their syntax :—

"I met a traveller from an antique land,

Who said: 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the Desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half-sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command,
Tell that the sculptor well those passions read
Which still survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:

'My name is Ozymandias, King of kings;

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'

2. Analyse either the first or the last half of the above passage.
(95.)

3. Explain by a paraphrase, or otherwise, the passage from "Near
them" down to "that fed."

(177.)

4. Examine and illustrate the etymology of any five of the follow-
ing words from the above sonnet: traveller, visage, passions, survive,
despair, level, boundless, lone, decay, colossal, desert, lip, pedestal. (100-
144.)

5. Show by definition and examples what is meant by (a) substan-
tive, (b) intransitive, (c) passive, (d) defective, (e) strong (irregular)
and (f) weak (regular) verbs. To which of the two last-named classes
would you refer the verbs to lead, to spread, to show, to sweep, to spend?
and why? (34-56.)

6. Give your definition of an adverb, a preposition, and a conjunc-
tion, and show by examples the difference between each of them and
the other two. Can you mention any words belonging to these three
classes which cannot be parsed without knowing their position in a
sentence? (57-60.)

7. Give a short historical sketch, with dates, of the origin and
growth of the English language. (199-201.)

SET C.

(Directions as in A.)

COMPOSITION.

Write a letter on one of the following subjects :-

(1) Gardening.

(2) A storm at sea.

(3) A day's angling.

(4) Some public park. (159.)

GRAMMAR.

1. Parse fully the words italicised in the following sentences (syntax is an essential part of parsing):

"For who would bear

The insolence of office and the spurns

That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourne
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,

And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?"

2. Analyse the sentence in Question 1.

(86-99.)

3. Select and classify the pronouns, conjunctions, and prepositions in the same sentence.

4. Explain the terms cardinal, ordinal, and indefinite numerals, and give examples of each. (29-31.)

5. Give the past tenses of the verbs crow, hew, sing, win, help, bid, chide, write, dig, lie, get, shear, and any obsolete forms of those tenses. (46, 47.)

6. Classify the English conjunctions, and show that they are frequently derived from verbs.

7. Explain the force of the following affixes: -dom, as in martyrdom; some, as in handsome; -less, as in speechless; -ible, as in inflexible; and give other examples of each affix. (100-124.)

8. Define a preposition, and show by examples that prepositions do not always precede the noun they govern. (58.)

9. Give examples of noun, adjective, and adverbial clauses, employed as subordinate sentences.

(95.)

10. Name the sources of our language from which the following words are derived: hat, shoe, vest, glove, sock, bonnet, ribbon, tunic, shirt. (128-144.)

SET D.

(Directions as in A.)

COMPOSITION.

Write a letter, or an essay, on one of the following subjects :

(a) Common fruits.

(b) Football.

(c) Modes of travelling.

(d) The advantages and disadvantages of living in an old, or in a newly settled, country, compared.

(159.)

GRAMMAR.

1. Parse the words in italics in the following passage, not omitting

to give and explain their syntax, and carefully distinguishing the words which occur twice over :

"For therein stands the office of a King,

His honour, virtue, merit, and chief praise,
That for the public such a weight he bears.
Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a King:
Which every wise and virtuous man attains;
And who attains not, ill aspires to rule
Cities of men or headstrong multitudes,
Subject himself to anarchy within,

Or lawless passions in him, which he serves."

2. Analyse the passage. (95.)

3. Of the 15 nouns in the above passage, 5 are of Anglo-Saxon, 8 of Latin, and 2 of Greek origin. Classify them accordingly. About which word only may there be a difference of opinion, and why? (131-137.) 4. Make a list of the auxiliary verbs, distinguishing those of mood from those of tense. (53.)

5. Give examples of English words in which differences of (a) case, (b) number, (c) gender, (d) degree, (e) mood, (f) tense, (g) voice, are indicated by changes in the form of the word itself (inflexion). (11.)

6. Point out the historical order in which the several foreign elements were incorporated into the English language. During what period did English seem to be dying out, and under what circumstances and influences did it revive? (198-202.)

SET E.

(Two hours and a half allowed for this paper.)

No abbreviation of less than three letters to be used in parsing or analysis.

SECTION I.—Parse fully the words in italics in the following passages (syntax should not be neglected in the parsing):

"Yet mourn not, Land of Fame,

:

Though ne'er the Leopards on thy shield
Retreated from so sad a field,

Since Norman William came.

Oft may thine annals justly boast

Of battles stern by Scotland lost;

Grudge not her victory.

When for her freeborn rights she strove,
Rights dear to all who freedom love,
To none so dear as thee."

“One evening, as the Emperor was returning to the palace through a narrow portico, an assassin who waited his passage rushed upon him with a drawn sword, loudly exclaiming, 'The Senate sends you this.'"