Is its own place and time; its innate sense Born from the knowledge of its own desert. 2. Translate into Greek prose It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words than in that speech: "Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god." For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society, in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast; but it is most untrue that it should have any character at all of the divine nature, except it proceed not out of a pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation, such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen, as Epimenides the Cretan, and Empedocles the Sicilian; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna civitas, magna solitudo. LATIN.-PART II. (COMPOSITION.) Professor Tucker and Mr. Tubbs. 1. Translate into Latin elegiacs Hushed are the winds, and still the evening gloom, That clay, where once such animation beamed; Not worth, nor beauty, have her life redeemed. Oh, could the King of Terrors pity feel, Or Heaven reverse the dread decrees of fate! Not here the mourner would his grief reveal, Not here the muse her virtues would relate. Yet is remembrance of those virtues dear, Yet fresh the memory of that beauteous face; Still they call forth my warm affection's tear, Still in my heart retain their wonted place. 2. Translate into Latin prose It must indeed, in justice to Marlborough, be borne in mind that mere military skill was by no means all that was required of him in this difficult and invidious position. Had it not been for his unrivalled patience and sweetness of temper, and his marvellous ability in discerning the character of those with whom he had to act, his intuitive perception of those who were to be thoroughly trusted, and of those who were to be amused with the mere semblance of respect and confidence had not Marlborough possessed and employed, while at the head of the allied armies, all the qualifications of a polished courtier and a great statesman, he would never have led the allied armies to the Danube. His great political adversary, Bolingbroke, does him ample justice here when he observes that, by the death of the King, Marlborough was raised to the head of the army, and indeed of the Confederacy; where he, a new man, a private man, a subject, acquired by merit and by management a more deciding influence than high birth, confirmed authority, and even the crown of Great Britain had given to King William. ENGLISH.-PART. I. HONOURS SECOND PAPER. The Board of Examiners. 1. Make a table of the Indo-European languages. 2. Comment on the characters of Touchstone and Jaques. 3. What is your own opinion about Lycidas? 4. Quote (a) One of Milton's Sonnets. (b) Landor's lines about the shell. (c) Landor's two verses on Rose Aylmer. 5. Compare the prose style of Macaulay with that of Landor. 6. Explain the following: (a) The corruption of death began to ferment into new forms of life. (b) A strain worthy of Captain Bobadil. (c) The previous question was put and carried. 7. Give briefly the story of the Knight's Tale. 8. Give a list of words not now used which are found both in Chaucer and in Piers the Plowman. 9. Explain fully the following words : (a) From Chaucer:-abhominable, darreyne, lodemenage, shode, wimpel, wood. (b) From Piers the Plowman:-auncere, brockes, cruche, faitoures, freke, likam, noumpere, ragman, songewarie. 10. What traces of the Common Field System do you find in Piers the Plowman, and what do you gather about the author's religious views? 11. Explain the following passages from Chaucer:(1) After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe. (2) And yit this maunciple sette her aller cappe. (3) Nat oonly lyk the loveres maladye Of Hereos, but rather lyk manye Engendred of humour malencolyk, Beforen, in his celle fantastyk. (4) Yet sawgh I brent the shippes hoppesteres. (5) And cryden, "Out! harrow! and weylaway!" 12. Explain the following passages from Piers the Plowman :— (1) I shope me in shroudes. (2) I have ysein segges Beren bighes ful brighte. (3) the roste to defye. (4) It is as derworth a drewery. (5) of red scarlet engreyned. (6) (7) .... .... worth bynome hym after. and biggen hym bote. (8) In kirtel and kourteby. (9) my donet to lerne. (10) but yif it be ytailled. (11) and seyned hym swithe. (12) And binam hym his Mnam. ENGLISH.-PART II. HONOURS SECOND PAPER. The Board of Examiners. 1. What do we know of Chaucer's personal appearance? 2. Explain and comment on the lines Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold. 3. Explain the title Much Ado about Nothing. Is there any play on words in it? |