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(f) There was an understratum of joy which buoyed her up wonderfully.

(g) He was not only successful as a teacher but he gained fame as a lecturer.

(h) The fatal noose was adjusted about his neck and he was launched into eternity.

(i) There can be no doubt but that newspapers at present are read too much.

(j) If a man is under the influence of drink, it incapacitates him for work.

(k) I have been teaching for the last eight years in different parts of the country. (From a letter applying for a position).

(1) It takes several years to fully master the subject.

(m) I determined on preparing for college as soon as possible and to try the examinations in September.

(n) He says that he will be too busy to see anyone.

12. Rewrite the following to show your knowledge of the mechanics of writing. (Punctuation, paragraphing, use of quotation marks, etc.):

No no sir said Mr. Pinkham promptly my wife has come up to see the city and our time is short. You must certainly take Mrs Pinkham up to the park said the commission merchant. I wish I had time to show you around myself. I suppose you have been seeing some things already havent you. I noticed your arrival in the Herald. The Tribune it was said Mr Pinkham blushing through a smile and looking at his wife. Oh no I never read the Tribune said Mr Fitch there was quite an extended notice in my paper they must have put you and Mrs Pinkham into the Herald too. And so the friends parted laughing.

13. Give in two pages the substance of Arnold's Sweetness and Light.

SENIOR ENGLISH.

Candidates will write their answers in three separate books, one for each section of the paper.

A.

(Any three questions).

1. Explain what is meant by the primitive epic? Give a brief outline of the story of Beowulf and an appreciation of the poem as reflecting the moral and aesthetic characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon race.

2. Quote eight or ten lines from Chaucer's descriptions of the Knight and the Prioress, and explain how they reflect the ideals of the time.

Compare Chaucer's handling of the "heroic couplet" with Pope's.

3. Point out and contrast the characteristic qualities of thought and versification in the ancient ballad, the 18th century ballad, and such a modern ballad as Wordsworth's Ruth. Illustrate your statements by quotations or refer

ences.

4. Give an appreciation of the following sonnet, noticing thought, style, and technical structure:

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee: she is a fen

Of stagnant waters! altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
Have forfeited their ancient English dower
Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;
Oh! raise us up, return to us again;
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart:
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:

Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,

So didst thou travel on life's common way,

In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart
The lowliest duties on herself did lay.

5. Give some account of the mediaeval drama in England. What is meant by 'unity of aciton' in a drama, and how does the Classical differ from the Romantic Drama in the application of this principle? What is meant by the fundamental or organizing idea in a drama? Illustrate from Hamlet.

6.

B.

Question 6 and any two of the others.

How all occasions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time

Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not

That capability and god-like reason

To fust in us unused. Now whether it be
Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple

Of thinking too precisely on the event,—

A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom

And ever three parts coward,-I do not know

Why yet I live to say 'this thing's to do,'

Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means,

To do't.

(a) In what circumstances is this soliloquy spoken? (b) Explain the italicized parts.

(c) 'Thinking too precisely on the event' gives one explanation for Hamlet's delay in avenging his father. How far do you consider this explanation satisfactory? Discuss fully.

(d) Give brief character sketches of two of the following: the King, Polonius, Laertes, Horatio.

7. (a)

What though the field be lost?

All is not lost: the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield:
And what is else not to be overcome?

(1) What is meant by the last line of this extract? (2) What characteristic of Satan is most clearly displayed in these lines?

(3) What are the other chief characteristics of the Archfiend? Either quote or make definite reference to lines in which the qualities you mention are clearly shown.

(b) Distinguish between the characteristic qualities of dramatic blank verse as shown in Hamlet, and epic blank verse as illustrated in Paradise Lost.

8. Explain the meaning of the following passages and state the poem and the connection in which each occurs: But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din

(a)

(b)

(c)

Of towns and cities, I have owed to them
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,

Felt in the blood and felt along the heart.

Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!

No hungry generations tread thee down.

Long he lived nameless: how should Spring take note
Winter would follow?

Till lo, the little touch, and youth was gone!

(d) But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them and, lo, they are!

9. On what grounds does Arnold base Wordsworth's superiority as a poet? Compare the general qualities of Wordsworth's style and rhythm with those of Keats.

C.

(Any four questions).

10. Account for the forms indicated by italics and for the subsequent changes:

(a) And smale fowles maken melodye.

(b) Stood redy covered al the longe day.
(c) In hope to stonden in his lady grace.
(d) So hadde I spoken with hem everichon
That I was of hir felawship anon.
(e) That unto logic hadde longe y-go.
(f) And carf beforn his fader at the table.

(g) His hors were goode.

(h) Hir eyen greye as glas.

11. Write briefly on two of the following topics:

(a) The Latin element in English.

(b) Chaucer's influence on the vocabulary and development of the English Language.

(c) English a Germanic and not a Romance Language.

12. Explain, with illustrations, any four of the following: Folk etymology, phonetic law, voiced consonants, voiceless consonants, spirant, umlaut (gradation).

13. Deal with three words in each of the following groups: (a) Account for brethren and children as plurals of brother and child, for farther and elder as comparatives of far and old, and give the history of its.

(b) Account for the sounds represented by the italicized letters, and cite parallels: walked, dogs, sound, cupboard, church.

(c) Account for the spelling: son, island, could, nones(“ for the nones"), vixen.

(d) Give the etymology and the history of the meaning of :nice, curious, dangerous, cheap, dainty, villain.

14. What are the outstanding merits of Carlyle as a biographer?

Explain the following statements:

(a) The Ideal world is not remote from the Actual, but under it and within it.

(b) It is not the dark place that hinders, but the dim eye.

(c) Will a courser of the sun work softly in the harness of a Dray-horse?

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