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SENIOR FRENCH.

Dictation.

(Note to Examiners: Please read over carefully the Instructions to Examiners; and read the dictation in phrases as marked by the perpendicular lines).

Me trouvant à Dinard, | je fus invité | par un de mes amis | à un mariage breton. | Je me rendis | le lendemain | à l'église, une belle petite église du quinzième siècle, d'une architecture admirable | et décorée intérieurement avec un luxe fastueux. Les invités | faisaient foule; ils avaient tous sorti | leurs plus beaux habits. | La jeune femme, fraîche et rose | dans son riche costume breton, rayonnait de satisfaction | et regardait | avec un orgueil | bien naturel son fiancé, | grand et robuste jeune homme aux yeux pétillants de contentement. | Le curé, après avoir récité de longues prières, | fit un discours en breton, discours | auquel je ne compris | absolument rien, | mais qui devait être | bien touchant, | à en juger | par les mines dévotes de tous les assistants. | Invités et mariés | avaient la tenue | la plus respectueuse, le recueillement | le plus parfait. Quand la cérémonie | fut achevée, on sortit pieusement | de l'église en se signant, et l'on partit en ordre | pour terminer | au milieu des festins | et des danses | une journée aussi bien commencée.

JUNIOR ENGLISH.

A.

(Omit either question 2 or question 3. In addition, extra-mural students will omit questions 4 and 10, and intra-mural students will omit questions 5 and 13. Write the answers to A and B in separate books).

1. (a) Mention six important facts in Wordsworth's life. (b) What characteristics of Wordsworth's poetry appear in Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey?

2. (a) Discuss The Lady of Shalott as a lyric.

(b) What are the notable qualities of The Palace of Art?

3. (a) Write a short sketch of Longfellow's life.

(b) Is the Skeleton in Armor a real ballad? Give reasons for your answer.

4. (a) What are the names and characteristics of the four periods into which Dowden divides the life of Shakespeare?

(b) What are Dowden's "wholly internal" tests for the dates of Shakespeare's plays?

5. Locate definitely any six of the following passages, and explain the meaning of the italicized words:

(a) Full many a deyntee hors hadde he in stable

(b) A limitour, a ful solempne man.

(c) And peyned hir to countrefete chere.

(d) A bettre envyned man was nevere noon.

(e)

But 't is a common proof

That lowliness is young ambition's ladder. (f) With Ate by his side come hot from Hell.

(g) Poor knave, I blame thee not; thou art o'erwatched.

6. (a) When was Julius Caesar written? What is the historical time covered by the play? the dramatic time?

(b) Is the play justly named Julius Caesar? Support your contention by specific references to the play.

7. Discuss fully, with constant reference to the text, any four of the following characters: Brutus, Cassius, Shylock, Gratiano, the Monk, the Squire.

B.

8. (a) Name in chronological order the prose authors studied, with dates of birth and death.

(b) Write a short biography of either Swift or Defoe. Name the chief works of the writer selected, indicate the nature of each of these, and show the author's significance in the history of literature.

9. (a) Describe fully and definitely, with illustrations, the characteristic features of the style of three of the following writers: Addison, Bacon, Carlyle, Johnson, Macaulay, Stev

enson.

(b) From the writers just named, pick out the proper author for each of the passages quoted below. Give reasons for your opinion.

i. He was poor, even to raggedness; and his appearance excited a mirth and a pity which were equally intolerable to his haughty spirit. He was driven from the quadrangle of Christ Church by the sneering looks which the members of that aristocratical society cast at the holes in his shoes. Some charitable person placed a new pair at the door; but he spurned them away in a fury. Distress made him not servile, but reckless and ungovernable.

ii. One remembers always that story of the shoes at Oxford: the rough, scamy-faced, rawboned College Servitor stalking about, in winter-season, with his shoes worn out; how the charitable Gentleman Commoner secretly places a new pair at his door; and the rawboned Servitor, lifting them, looking at them near, with his dim eyes, with what thought,-pitches them out of window! Wet feet, mud, frost, hunger or what you will; but not beggary: we cannot stand beggary! Rude stubborn self-help here; a whole world of squalor, rudeness, confused misery and want, yet of nobleness and manfulness withal. It is a type of the man's life, this pitching away of the shoes. An original man;-not a second-hand, borrowing or begging man. Let us stand on our own basis, at any rate! On such

shoes as we ourselves can get. On frost and mud, if you will, but honestly on that; -on the reality and substance which Nature gives us, not on the semblance, on the thing she has given another man than us.

9. (a) Point out the merits of the following passages as pieces of Description:

i.

On either side the river lie

Long fields of barley and of rye,

That clothe the wold and meet the sky.

ii.... the crowd of restless birds that fill the whole square with the strange clangour of theirs.

iii. But it was in Earraid itself that I delighted chiefly. . . Here was no living presence, save for the limpets on the rocks, for some old, gray, rain-beaten ram that I might arouse out of a ferny den betwixt two boulders, or for the haunting and piping of the gulls. It was older than man; it was found so by incoming Celts, and seafaring Norsemen, and Columba's priests. The earthy savour of the bog plants, the rude disorder of the boulders, the inimitable sea-side brightness of the air, the brine and the iodine, the lap of the billows among the weedy reefs, the sudden springing up of a great run of dashing surf along the sea-front of the isle,-all that I saw and felt that my predecessors must have seen and felt with scarce a difference. I steeped myself in open air and past ages.

(b) Define and illustrate: Description by Effect, Pathetic Fallacy, Concreteness.

10. (a) What principles should be observed in writing Exposition? Comment briefly on each principle mentioned in order to show its value.

11. Point out definitely the fault in each of the following sentences, and then rewrite:

(a) Lost in prolonged reverie, the hours flew on.

(b) Neither the man nor the woman were able to tell what happened.

(c) I would be very glad to help you if I could.

(d) I intended to have written to you last week.

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(e) Hockey is a Canadian game and is very popular in that coun

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