MATHEMATICS.-PAPER VI. The Board of Examiners. Write Essays on not more than three of the following subjects: (1) The Kinematics of Fluids. (2) The Stream-Function in three dimensions. (3) The equations of motion of a solid in infinite liquid. (4) Long waves in shallow water. (5) The motion of straight vortex filaments. SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE. ENGLISH. FIRST PAPER. Professor Morris. 1. What is known of the life of Chaucer ? 2. Write a note on each of the following words from Chaucer:-Limbeck, abhomination, teyne, herbergage, starf, noot. 3. Give brief descriptions of the Pardoner, the Parson, and the Shipman. 4. Write a short Essay on "St. Cecilia." 5. How would you contrast Chaucer with the writer of Piers the Plowman? Comment on the mistake that makes Piers author of the poem. 6. How is the gap in English literature between Chaucer and Spenser partially filled? 7. What is the attitude towards Astrology and Alchemy of Chaucer and of Shakspeare? 8. What lessons, other than political, can be drawn from Coriolanus? What is the moral of Cymbeline? 9. Name the chief woman characters in the four plays-Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Hamlet, and King Lear. Write a short Essay on them. 10. Briefly contrast Bacon and Shakspeare on the following points :-(a) Lives and social position, (b) texture of mind, (c) character of writings. 11. Explain the following passages: (a) Where is your ancient courage? you were used craves A noble cunning.-Cor. He, with two striplings-lads more like to run With faces fit for masks, or rather fairer (c) Hyperion to a satyr.-Ham. (d) Old Truepenny.-Ham. (e) Swithold footed thrice the old ; He met the night-mare and her ninefold. (f) And my poor fool is hanged.-Lear. -Lear. ENGLISH. SECOND PAPER. Professor Morris. 1. Explain the meaning of the title "Areopagitica." 2. Explain the following passages: (a) That Petronius whom Nero called his Arbiter. (b) I name not him for posterities sake whom Harry the 8 nam'd in merriment his Vicar of Hell. (c) That ethereall and fift essence. (d) If such were my Epirots, 3. Write a short history of the Essay. 4. How do you account for Dr. Johnson's great position and influence? Has there been anything like it before or since ? 5. Who are the representatives in English of a Latinised style? Draw distinctions between them. 6. What are the respective characteristics of the prose style of Addison, Steele, De Quincey, Emerson, Landor, and Macaulay? 7. State briefly what seems to you the special achievements in literature of Lamb, Sydney Smith, Arnold, and Carlyle respectively. 8. Why does not Mathew Arnold end his essay with the recommendation of the establishment of an Academy in England? 9. What does Arnold consider Heine's special function in Literature? 10. Write a review of Romola, briefly telling the plot, noting the time and the place, and the importance of each, and estimating the general value of the book. ENGLISH. THIRD PAPER. Professor Morris. 1. Account for the admiration formerly felt for Pope's poetry, as well as for the undeserved contempt now sometimes poured on it. 2. Mention poetry written by men whose stronghold is prose. 3. What was Wordsworth's defect as a poet? What is his great merit ? 4. If Keats had lived, do you hold that he or Shelley would have been crowned with the fairer poetic wreath ? 5. Some hold that all the alterations Tennyson made in his poems are for the worse. Can that view be reconciled with the fact that he was a severe critic of his own writing? 6. Comment on the following lines:(a) I moved as in a strange diagonal. (b) The Palmyrene that fought Aurelian. (c) The summer of the vine in all his veins. (d) Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null. (e) And play the game of the despot kings. (f) The seven clear stars of Arthur's Table Round. (g) The liquid note beloved of men. (h) Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. |