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8. How do you explain the fact that the more archaic the code the fuller and minuter is its penal legislation?

9. What was the reason for the vehement distaste of Intestacy in Roman society?

10. What is Seebohm's opinion of the origin of the Manor system in England, and state shortly the grounds upon which it is founded.

SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND
GERMAN.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. FIRST PAPER.

The Board of Examiners.

1. In Piers the Plowman, what account is given of the state of religion in England, and of the popular feeling towards the Church? Does it differ from Chaucer's?

2. Explain the words-Goliardeys, limitour, wastel, handidandi. What is the origin of rigmarole and treacle?

3. Is it true that in Chaucer's day there was much greater variety in social conditions than now, and consequently more colour in life?

4. Describe fully two of the company that rode forth from the Tabard, one man and one woman.

5. Explain the following passages, giving the meaning of peculiar words, and showing the construction, whenever it seems unusual

:

(a) Him wolde he snibben sharply for the nones.
A bettre preest, I trowe that nowher non is.
He wayted after no pompe and reverence,
Ne maked him a spyced conscience,
But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve,
He taughte, but first he folwed it him-selve.
(b) His Iambeux were of quyrboilly,
His swerdes shethe of yuory,

His helm of laton bryght;

His sadel was of rewel boon.

(c) I seye, he took out of his own sleue,
A teyne of siluer (yuel moot he cheue!)
Which that ne was nat but an ounce of weighte;
And taketh heed now of his cursed sleighte.

6. Which do you consider the most interesting character in the play of King John? Write a short analysis of it.

7. Show the bearing of the following passages from King John on Shakspeare's own time :

(a) That water-walled bulwark, still secure And confident from foreign purposes.

(b) Add thus much more, that no Italian priest
Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.

(c) This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,
But when it first did help to wound itself.

8. On which side was Shakspeare's sympathy in the revolution described in Richard II.2

9. Quote a passage from Richard II., not more than a dozen lines. Write a few words of comment, explaining why you like the passage.

10. Write an account of Spenser's life up to the first publication of the Faery Queene.

11. Did Shakspeare "unlock his heart" with the "small key" of the sonnet?

12. Compare Marlow's style with that of Shakspeare's early plays.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.

SECOND PAper.

The Board of Examiners.

Do

1. Give the substance of either Polonius' advice to his son, or Hamlet's advice to the players. you consider the advice valuable?

2. Explain briefly the following from Hamlet:

(a) The sledded Polacks.

(6) Hyperion to a satyr.

(c)

with swinish phrase

Soil our addition.

(d) Unhousel'd, disappointed, unaneled.

(e) I know a hawk from a handsaw.

(f)

the enginer

Hoist with his own petar.

(g) Goodness, growing to a plurisy.

3. Arrange in order the causes that destroyed the balance of Lear's mind.

4. From Bacon's Essays, what idea do we gain of the politicians of his time? Do you think they compare favourably with politicians of other times?

5. Give the substance of one of the following essays: -Of Nobility. Of Riches. Of Faction.

6. What is your estimate of Milton's Minor Poems? 7. What is the meaning of the name "Areopagitica"?

8. Explain the following from the Areopagitica:-
(a) That ethereal or fift essence.
(b) The Cynick impudence.

(c) Whether the author

press or to the spunge.

(d) A fugitive and cloister'd vertue.

(e) his ayrie Burgomasters.

shall to the

9. What are the arguments for and against the sincerity of Dryden's conversion ?

10. Quote a few lines from the "Essay on Man," and show from them the beauty of Pope's language. Is this accompanied by meagreness of thought?

11. What is the importance of the publication of "Pamela"?

12. "Oh, I could thrash his old jacket till I made his pension jingle in his pocket." What made Cowper so angry with Johnson's Life of Milton?

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.
THIRD PAPER.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Write the substance of Matthew Arnold's essay on Gray.

2. (a) Into what parts is In Memoriam divided?
Give a short sketch of each.

(b) Is the cycle entitled The Idylls of the King
allegorical? Give reasons for your answer.

3. Who was Paracelsus? Give some account of the
parts into which Browning's Paracelsus is
divided.

4. What is Carlyle's solution of Paganism?

5. Write a short note on each of the following quotations from Heroes and Hero-worship:

(a) Have a care, there is the Eager coming. (b) It is Igdrasil, the tree of Existence.

(c) Hegira, as they name it.

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