n. Spread close thy curtain, love-performing night, That runaway's eyes may wink." 8. Write explanatory notes on the following passages from Shakspeare and Milton: j. k. 66 Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas' clerks, I'll give thee this neck." "Speed. Come, fool, come try me in thy paper. "I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense, "For look where my abridgements come." For there is, sir, an aiery of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question, and are most tyrannically clapped for 't." 66 "Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, 9. In what poems do the following passages occur :- 66 "Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise." Airy tongues that syllable men's names." "And whistled as he went for want of thought." Not to know me argues yourself unknown.” "Love made him first suspect himself a man." 66 'England, with all thy faults, I love thee still." "Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee." "It is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance." 66 0. 'Necessity, the tyrant's plea." t. "God made the country, and man made the town." The following is a portion of the vivâ voce Examination on English Literature and English Language: 1. Algernon Sidney's Discourses on Government were written in reply to a previous writer? 2. Two peculiar causes may be assigned for the difference in the treatment of celestial things between the "Divine Comedy" and the "Paradise Lost"? 3. "Milton is not a picturesque but a musical poet." Who said that: "Such were the pleasing triumphs of the sky 4. For James's late nocturnal victory." Explain this passage. 5. Why chiefly does Garth's "Dispensary" deserve our attention? 6. To what source does Scott refer the unnatural and pedantic dialogue of the plays of the Restoration ? 7. What English writer first denounced the traffic in slaves? 8. A little piece by Evelyn is remarkable as illustrative of social history? 9. Who is the author of "Amantium Iræ"? 10. Mr. Hallam finds a remarkable difference of tone between "The Paradise of Dainty Devices" and "England's Helicon"? II. Who is the Stella of Sir P. Sidney's poems ? 12. In which of Shakspeare's plays does Mr. Hallam notice the commencement of a metaphysical obscurity which soon became characteristic ? 13. What is the principle of toleration adopted in Taylor's "Liberty of Prophesying"? 14. "Macbeth" was written after the year 1603? 15. What did Johnson look on as the greatest violation of the dramatic character of the poem "Comus"? 16. What is the name of Chaucer's prioress? 17. What lines does Johnson quote as containing the one particle of old versification to be found in Dryden's works? 18. Where is Shakspeare's famous "To be, or not to be," ridiculed? 19. What was the occasion of Chaucer's writing the "Booke of the Duchesse"? 20. What is the last historical event mentioned in the "Canterbury Tales"? 21. What allusions in "Piers Ploughman" approximately determine its date? 22. What satirist overthrew the Della Cruscan School? 23. What name was given to Dryden's and Davenant's alteration of the "Tempest" ? 24. In what passage has Shakspeare been supposed to allude to the entertainments given by Leicester to Elizabeth at Kenilworth? 25. What is the number of Wilkes's celebrated paper in the "North Briton"? 26. What advantage of design does "The Canterbury Tales" possess over the "Decameron" ? 27. Where does Shakspeare mention the Brownists? 28. One prose romance in Anglo-Saxon has been discovered? 29. Explain the word "Cockayne" which occurs in the name of a famous satirical poem. 30. What are Chaucer's prose works? 31. In what metre is Barbour's "Bruce" written? 32. What is the form of verse employed in "Misogonus"? 33. What work established blank verse in our language? 34. Ben Jonson puns on Shakspeare's name; repeat the lines. 35. “Venus and Adonis" was published in 1593; it must have been written some years previously? 36. Where did Shakspeare find the story of "As you like it"? 37. What comment did Dryden make on Ben Jonson's line, "Though heaven should speak with all his wrath at once"? 38. What is the first play in blank verse that appeared on the public stage? 39. What poem suggested that of Pope on 40. "Silence"? "Tickell, whose skiff (in partnership they say) Set forth for Greece, but founder'd on the way." Explain these lines. 41. Which of Milton's works contains the remarkable passage announcing his intention to write poetry? 42. Fuller declares that one writer's works alone would make a competent historical library for a country gentleman ? 43. Who is Edward Search, Esq. ? 44. Archbishop Trench and Mr. Marsh differ with regard to the period of the first great incoming of words direct from the Latin ? 45. An explanation of the expression, "The Humanities," different from that of Archbishop Trench, is given by Mr. Marsh? 46. In what compound word have we still the present tense of "quoth"? 47. One English word is probably a true accusative in the strict sense of the term? 48, What is Dr. Latham's opinion with respect to the part of England from which our standard English originated? 49. How did "ye" come to be printed for "the"? 50. What is the most remarkable fact brought out by a comparison of the Classical and Saxon elements in the vocabulary of writers of the last and present centuries? 51. Robert of Brunne-where is Brunne? ENGLISH COMPOSITION. 1. The general characteristics of the Elizabethan Drama. 2. An imaginary conversation between Chaucer and John of Gaunt, or Shakspeare and Burbage, or Milton and Ellwood, or Pope and Arbuthnot. 3. The present prospects of Poetry. 4. Thomas Carlyle. 5. The literature of Satire. 6. The English periodical Essay. 7. Shelley. 8. Wordsworth. (Candidates will select for themselves any two of the subjects given above.) Moderatorships in Logics and Ethics. Examiners. JOHN LEWIS MOORE, D. D., Vice-Provost. GEORGE LONGFIELD, D. D. JAMES W. BARLOW, M. A., Professor of History. REV. G. LONGFIELD, D. D. 1. What is Sir W. Hamilton's reduction of the Primary Qualities ? What difficulty does it involve, and what solution of the difficulty does he offer? 2. Mr. Mansel, endeavouring to reconcile Sir W. Hamilton's doctrine as to the Relativity of Knowledge with his views as to the Primary Qualities, says: "Objective existence does not mean existence per se; and a phenomenon does not mean a mere mode of mind. Objective existence is existence as an object, in perception, and therefore in relation; and a phenomenon may be material as well as mental. The thing per se may be only the unknown cause of what we directly know; but what we directly know is something more than our own sensation." In reference to the same subject Mr. Fraser says: "Where does Sir W. Hamilton say that we have an absolute knowledge of the primary qualities of matter, in any other sense than that in which he says that we have a like knowledge of a feeling of pain or pleasure in our minds while it is being felt, or an act of consciousness while it is being acted?" Examine the value of these vindications of Sir W. Hamilton s consistency. 3. Give a clear abstract of Mr. Mill's examination of Sir W. Hamilton's doctrine of the Philosophy of the Conditioned as applied to Space. 4. (a). What are the facts adduced by Sir W. Hamilton in proof of the existence of unconscious mental modifications, and how far do they seem to warrant his conclusion? (b) State and examine Sir W. Hamilton's objections to the explanation given by Dugald Stewart of the consecution of thoughts apparently un connected. 5. How does M. Jouffroy argue that distraction and non-distraction are matters of intelligence, and not of sense? Point out the bearing of his conclusion on an important psychological question. 6. (a). State the psychological theory as to the belief in an external world propounded by Mr. Mill. He contends that, on Sir W. Hamilton's principles, this theory should be preferred to that which he espouses? (b). How does he treat the objection to his theory founded on the fact of the human mind being capable of imagining the external world as something more than what this theory makes it? 7. Explain Sir W. Hamilton's opinion as to the causal judgment, and state the grounds on which he deems it preferable to the doctrine of a special principle of causality. 8. (a). State the arguments against the doctrine that our voluntary agency is the exclusive source from which the idea of causation is derived. (b). Wherein does Mr. Mill consider that the strength of this theory lies? (c). In his discussion on this subject he refers to the Cartesian doctrine of Occasional Causes; with what object? 9. What does Mr. Mill conceive to be the capital error in Bacon's view of inductive philosophy? 10. There is an apparent insecurity in the basis of scientific induction? Mr. Mill objects to the common solution of the difficulty which it involves; what is his own solution? 11. State the conditions of legitimate hypotheses as laid down by Mr. Mill; and notice the divergences of opinion of Dr. Whewell and Mr. Mill on the subject of hypotheses. 12. (a). Point out the necessary limit of the explanation of laws of nature. In what case has science been most successful in explaining phenomena, and why might the result be expected à priori ? (b). M. Comte has fallen into an error the opposite of the common one on this subject? How does Mr. Mill controvert M. Comte's views ? |