I see him hew his passage through my brothers;
And, bath'd in blood, lay all my kindred waste.
Think, in this scene of horror, what I suffer'd!
This is the courtship I receiv'd from Pyrrhus;
And this the husband thou wou'dst give me! No,
We both will perish first! I'll ne'er consent.

Ceph. Since you resolve Astyanax shall die,
Haste to the temple, bid your son farewell.
Why do you tremble, Madam?

And. O Cephisa!

Thou hast awaken'd all the mother in me.

How can I bid farewell to the dear child.

The pledge, the image of my much-lov'd lord!
But oh! while I deliberate, he dies.

PHILIPS.

Translate the following passage into Latin Prose :

Being admitted to Henry's parties of pleasure, he took the lead in every jovial conversation, and promoted all that frolic and entertainment which he found suitable to the age and inclination of the young monarch. During the intervals of amusement he introduced business, and insinuated those maxims of conduct which he was desirous his master should adopt. He observed to him, that while he entrusted his affairs into the hands of his father's counsellors, he had the advantage indeed of employing men of wisdom and experience, but men who owed not their promotion to his favour, and who scarcely thought themselves accountable to him for the exercise of their authority: that by the factions, and cabals, and jealousies, which had long prevailed among them, they more obstructed the advancement of his affairs, than they promoted it by the knowledge which age and practice had conferred upon them: that while he thought proper to pass his time in those pleasures, to which his age and royal fortune invited him, and in those studies, which would in time enable him to sway the sceptre with absolute authority, his best system of government would be to entrust his authority into the hands of some one person, who was the creature of his will, and who could entertain no view but that of promoting his service. And that if this minister had also the same relish for pleasure with himself, and the same taste for science, he could more easily, at intervals, account to him for his whole conduct, and introduce his master gradually into the knowledge of public business; and thus, without tedious constraint or application, initiate him in the science of government.-HUME's History of England.

MR. ABBOTT,

Translate the following passage into Latin Prose :

Incident to this point is, for a state to have those laws or customs which may reach forth unto them just occasions (as may be pretended) of war. For there is that justice imprinted in the nature of men, that they enter not upon wars (whereof so many calamities do ensue), but

upon some, at the least specious, grounds and quarrels. The Turk hath at hand, for cause of war, the propagation of his law or sect, a quarrel that he may always command. The Romans, though they esteemed the extending the limits of their empire to be great honour to their generals when it was done, yet they never rested upon that alone to begin a war. First, therefore, let nations that pretend to greatness have this, that they be sensible of wrongs, either upon borderers, merchants, or politic ministers, and that they sit not too long upon a provocation. Secondly, let them be prest and ready to give aids and succours to their confederates, as it ever was with the Romans; insomuch, as if the confederates had leagues defensive with divers other states, and upon invasion offered did implore their aids severally, yet the Romans would ever be the foremost, and leave it to none other to have the honour. As for the wars which were anciently made on the behalf of a kind of party, or tacit conformity of estate, I do not see how they may be well justified: as when the Romans made a war for the liberty of Græcia; or, when the Lacedæmonians and Athenians made wars to set up or pull down democracies and oligarchies; or, when wars were made by foreigners, under the pretence of justice or protection, to deliver the subjects of others from tyranny and oppression, and the like. Let it suffice, that no estate expect to be great that is not awake upon any just occasion of arming.-BACON's Essays.

Translate the following passage into Latin Hexameters :

The goddess said, and sullen took her place;
Blank horror sadden'd each celestial face,
To see the gathering grudge in every breast,
Smiles on her lips a spleenful joy express'd;
While on her wrinkled front, and eyebrow bent,
Sat steadfast care, and lowering discontent.

Thus she proceeds-Attend, ye powers above!
But know, 'tis madness to contest with Jove :
Supreme he sits: and sees, in pride of sway,
Your vassal godheads grudgingly obey;
Fierce in the majesty of power controls;

:

Shakes all the thrones of heaven, and bends the poles.
Submiss immortals! all he wills, obey;

And thou, great Mars, begin and show the way.

Behold Ascalaphus ! behold him die,

But dare not murmur, dare not vent a sigh;

Thy own lov'd boasted offspring lies o'erthrown.

If that lov'd boasted offspring be thy own.

Stern Mars, with anguish for his slaughter'd son,
Smote his rebelling breast, and fierce begun :
Thus then, immortals! thus shall Mars obey;
Forgive me, gods, and yield my vengeance way:
Descending first to yon forbidden plain,
The god of battles dares avenge the slain;
Dares, though the thunder bursting o'er my head
Should hurl me blazing on those heaps of dead.

With that, he gives command to Fear and Flight
To join his rapid coursers for the fight:

Then, grim in arms, with hasty vengeance flies;
Arms, that reflect a radiance through the skies.
And now had Jove, by bold rebellion driven,
Discharg'd his wrath on half the host of heaven;
But Pallas, springing through the bright abode,
Starts from her azure throne to calm the god.

POPE'S Homer's Iliad.

MR. STACK.

Translate the following passage into Latin Alcaic Verse:-
The King was on his throne,

The Satraps thronged the hall;
A thousand bright lamps shone
O'er that high festival.
A thousand cups of gold

In Judah deemed divine-
Jehovah's vessels hold

The godless Heathen's wine!
In that same hour and hall
The fingers of a hand
Came forth against the wall

And wrote as if on sand:

The fingers of a 'man;—

A solitary hand
Along the letters ran,

And traced them like a wand.
The monarch saw, and shook,

And bade no more rejoice;
All bloodless waxed his look,
And tremulous his voice.
"Let the men of lore appear,
The wisest of the earth,
And expound the words of fear
Which mar our royal mirth."
Chaldea's seers are good,

But here they have no skill;
And the unknown letters stood
Untold and awful still,
And Babel's men of age

Are wise and deep in lore;
But now they were not sage,
They saw-but knew no more.

A captive in the land,

A stranger and a youth,
He heard the King's command,
He saw the writing's truth.
The lamps around were bright;
The prophecy in view;
He read it on that night,
The morrow proved it true.

Subject for Latin Verse Composition.

A comparison of the four periods of life (1. Boyhood and youth; 2. Early manhood; 3. Mature manhood; 4. Old age) with the four seasons of the year.

Prizes in English Literature and Composition.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

MR. BARLOW.

1. Render the following passage into modern English:

Lo, irous Cirus, thilke Persien,

How he destroyed the river of Gisen;
For that an hors of his was dreint therin,
Whan that he wente Babilon to win:

He made that the river was so smal,

That wimmen might it waden over al.

Lo, what said he, that so well techen can ?

Ne be no felaw to non irous man,

Ne with no wood man walke by the way,

Lest thee repent; I wol no forther say.

2. In respect of our verbs we are still in substance Anglo-Saxon; what are the principal alterations which have taken place?

3. Give a few specimens of the literature of the "Early English Period."

4. Write etymological notes on the following words: skeleton, caterer, craw-fish, obsequies, gossip, songstress, jeopardy, megrim, quinsy, daffodil, kickshaws, caucus.

5. "Many words formerly slang, are now received, like pardoned outlaws, into the body of respectable citizens." Give as many instances as you can recollect.

6. What rules does Dryden lay down for the guidance of a poet in the introduction of foreign words?

ENGLISH LITERATURE.

PROFESSOR INGRAM.

I.-1. Give the substance of what is said by Spalding on the peculiar character of the Anglo-Saxon literature.

2. Give as full an account as you can of the "Visions of Piers Plow

man."

3. Compare the French and the English Drama, with respect to their system and principles.

4. Give an account of the poetical and prose writings of Dryden, and characterize his genius.

5. Give a pretty full view of the Prose Literature of the First Age of the Nineteenth Century.

6. Name the authors of the following poems, and describe briefly any one of them:-"The Progress of Poesy," "Alastor," "Roderick, the Last of the Goths," "Eloisa to Abelard," "Theodore and Honoria," 'Endymion,” “Polyolbion,” “Il Penseroso,” “The Shepherds' Calendar," "Venus and Adonis."

7. Name the authors of the following prose writings:-" History of the Rebellion," "The Complete Angler," "History of the Holy War," "Novum Organum," "The Man of Feeling," "The Battle of the Books," "Recreations of Christopher North," Toxophilus," "The Antiquary," "History of Ferdinand and Isabella."

8. What do you know of William Tyndale, George Buchanan, Robert Burton, Jonathan Edwards, Washington Irving?

9. Describe the prose styles of Hooker, Taylor, Milton, Sir Thomas Browne, Hobbes, and Addison.

10. Write explanatory notes on the following quotations from Shak

speare:

a. "Ten times more dishonourable ragged than an old faced ancient." b. "With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits.”

c.

"Farewell, Allhallown summer."

d. "Burgomasters and great oneyers."

e. "Their points being broken. P. Down fell their hose."

f.

g.

h.

"Wast taken with the manner."

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Clapped even now into my hand by an underskinker."

"She never could away with me.

i. "Here will be old utis."

j.

"That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd

So many English kings."

k. "The people fear me."

1. "The bloody Douglas . . . 'Gan vail his stomach."

m.

"Put me a caliver into Wart's hand."

n.

"I was never manned with an agate till now."