Grace Abounding, The Holy War, Areopagitica, On Education, Dryden's Essay on Dramatic Poesie, Dryden's Preface to the Fables, Rules for Holy Dying, Of the Liberty of Prophesying, Religio Medici, Jonson's Masques, On Urn Burial, 2. Write notes on the thought and style of the passages given below: (a) O that it were as it was wont to be! When thy old Friends of Fire, all full of Thee, Fought against Frowns with smiles; gave Glorious chase Of Death and fiercest Dangers, durst with Brave And sober pace march on to meet a Grave. And to the Teeth of Hell stood up to teach thee, In Centre of their inmost Souls they wore thee, Where Racks and Torments strived, in vain, to reach thee. (b) He that hath found some fledged bird's nest may know, At first sight, if the bird be flown; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown. And yet as Angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul, when man doth sleep: So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, O Father of eternal life, and all Created glories under Thee! Resume thy spirit from this world of thrall Into true liberty. (c) Crown me with roses while I live, Now your wines and ointments give: Let me alive my pleasures have: All are Stoics in the grave. (d) The boy was in very mean clothes, but of a very fresh and well-favoured countenance; and as he sat by himself, he sang. Hark, said Mr. Great-heart, to what the shepherd's boy saith. So they hearkened. Then said the guide, Do you hear him? I will dare to say, that this boy lives a merrier life, and wears more of that herb called heart's-ease in his bosom, than he that is clad in silk and velvet. (e) For who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious; those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power: give her but room, and do not bind her when she sleeps, for then she speaks not true, as the old Proteus did, who spake oracles only when he was caught and bound, but then rather she turns herself into all shapes except her own, and perhaps tunes her voice according to the time. (f) 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short for our designs. To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, were a contradiction to our beliefs. We whose generations are ordained in this setting part of time, are providentially taken off from such imaginations; and being necessitated to eye the remaining particle of futurity, are naturally constituted unto thoughts of the next world, and cannot excusably decline the consideration of that duration, which maketh Pyramids pillars of snow, and all that's past a moment. HISTORY. PRELIMINARY HONOURS. Intra-Mural. FIRST PAPER. (Candidates are recommended to attempt not more than six questions). 1. Sketch the history of the British West Indies from 1783 to 1834. 2. Discuss the merits and defects of Penal Colonies in the light of the history of Australia. 3. What do you understand by "Systematic Colonization"? How far is this theory justly blameable for the early disasters of South Australia? 4. What currents of thought led to the granting of Responsible Government to Canada? 5. Is the presence of a native race an obstacle to the grant to a colony of Responsible Government? 6. Discuss the question of an Upper House in the light of colonial experience. 7. Discuss the merits and defects of British colonial administration, as shown by the career of either Lord Durham, Sir Geeorge Grey, or Sir Bartle Frere. 8. What were the main causes of the Boer Trek in 1836? 9. Draw a map of Africa south of the Zambesi River, either in 1880, or in 1904. 10. Write a short life of Cecil Rhodes. HISTORY. PRELIMINARY HONOURS. FIRST PAPER. Extra-Mural. (Candidates are recommended to attempt not more than six questions). 1. Sketch the history of the British West Indies from 1783 to 1834. 2. Discuss the merits and defects of Penal Colonies in the light of the history of Australia. 3. What do you understand by "Systematic Colonization"? How far is this theory justly blameable for the early disasters of South Australia? 4. What currents of thought led to the granting of Responsible Government to Canada? 5. Discuss the merits and defects of British Colonial Administration, as shown by the career of either Lord Durham or Sir George Grey. 6. Discuss the effects of improvements in transportation upon constitutional problems, in the light of the history of the British Empire since 1783. 7. Discuss the question of an Upper House in the light of Colonial experience. |