6. Herford classifies the poets of the "Age of Wordsworth" in three groups. What are these groups? Mention the principal members of each one and state roughly the main characteristics of the poetry of the several groups. 7. Of Robert Browning Walker says: "His works are the landmarks of his life." How does he illustrate this? 8. Mention three of the principal theological or philosophical writers of "The Age of Tennyson" and give a short biographical sketch of any one of them. 9. "Wordsworth's poems of nature are not poems of observation and description; they are rather poems of contemplation, passion." (Dowden). Mention some of these poems and illustrate the foregoing remark by quotations. 10. Write a note on "Browning as a Poet" and illustrate your remarks by quotations from his shorter poems: Or according to Nutter, one of the qualities of Tennyson's poetry is "Vividness of description." Illustrate this from his shorter poems. 11. Name the author and the poem from which each of the following extracts is taken: (a) "Let beeves and home-bred kine partake the sweets of Burnmill meadow." 12. Give an outline of Thackeray's remarks on "The Restoration Drama." 1 and 2. Write a short essay on one of the following subjects: (a) City life and life in the country:-a contrast. The benefits of travelling. (b) (c) A holiday ramble. 3. Contrast briefly the English language before and after the Norman conquest. 4. What does Lounsbury say with regard to the "Unintelligent opposition of the intelligent" to "Spelling Reform?" 5. Herford says there are four leading types in the "Sociological speculation" of the "Age of Wordsworth." What are these types? Mention one representative of each type. 6. Give a brief biographical sketch of one of the following: Charles Lamb, Jane Austen, Lord Byron. 7. Give a short sketch of the life of Carlyle. What does Walker say with regard to the style of his works? 8. What position does Walker assign to Matthew Arnold as a writer, and on what grounds? 9. Quote passages from Wordsworth's poems illustrating what you consider to be special features in his poetry. 10. Narrate the story contained n: 11. (a) "The Italian in England." Name the author and the poem from which each of the following extracts is taken: (a) "The Kirk was deck'd at morning-tide, The tapers glimmered fair." 12. Give an outline of the extract from Carlyle entitled: "The City by night." 1. 2. 3. UNIVERSITY GRADUATE EXAMINATIONS. LATIN (MAJOR) (a) Write the vocative singular of meus, Vergilius, pelagus, Aeneas, deus; and the ablative singular of caro, supellex and introitus. (b) Distinguish as respects meaning between gaudeo and laetor. What case generally follows both? (c) Specify the various meanings of sto and consto respectively. Under which of its meanings does the latter govern the ablative? What is the general distinction between adjectives governing the genitive and dative cases. Give illustrations. Mention some governing both cases. Also the five which are followed by the Ablative and the still fewer followed by the Accusative. Translate into Latin: (1) He died at Carthage at the age of twenty. (2) Do not wish to exchange a good name for riches? (3) For forty years Pericles was at the head of affairs (use proper form of praesum) at Athens. (4) If you had obeyed me, you would not have lost your wives and homes. 4. 5. Re-write the following passages in the Oratio Recta: (1) Legati haec se ad suos relaturos dixerunt et re deliberata post diem tertium ad Caesaren reversuros: interea ne propius se castra moveret, petierunt. (2) (The Germans are replying to Caesar): Populi Romani imperium Rhenum inire: si se invito. Germanos in Galliam transire non aequun existemaret, cur sui quicquam esse imperii ant potestatis trans Rhenum postularet?" Justify by a reference, (a) to his character, (b) his political and forensic career, (c) and especially to his literary remains, Cicero's claim to be considered "the bright comsummate flower" of Roman civilization and culture. (Give as full an account of his works as you can). 6. Translate: Ego si Scipionis desiderio me moveri negem, quam id recte faciam viderint sapientes; sed certe mentiar. Moveor enim tali amico orbatus, qualis, ut arbitror, nemo unquam erit; ut confirmare possum, nemo certe fuit. Sed non egeo medicina; me ipse consolor et maxime illo solatio quod eo errore careo quo amicorum decessu plerique angi solent. Nihil mali accidisse Scipioni puto; mihi accidit si quid accidit. Suis autem incommodis graviter angi non amicum sed se ipsum amantis est. Parse mentiar and explain its mood. Explain case of amico, medicina, errore, umuntis. 7. Translate: -sed diu lateque victrices catervae consiliis iuvenis revictae sensere, quid mens rite, quid indoles fortes creantur fortibus et bonis; doctrina sed vim promovet insitam, indecorant bene nata culpae. fortibus et bonis. In what case are these words? Parse insitam. Also defecere and write a note on the various meanings of the verb. 8. Translate: scilicet et tempus veniet, cum finibus illis aut gravibus rastris galeas pulsabit inanes, di patrii, Indigetes, et Romule Vestaque mater, quae Tuscum Tiberim et Romana Palatia servas, = Exesa Eaten up, wasted away. Indigetes-Deified heroes. 9. Translate: Huic ab adulescentia bella intestina, caedes, rapinae, discordia civilis grata fuere, ibique iuventutem suam exercuit. Corpus patiens inediae, algoris, vigiliae supra quam cuiquam credibile est. Animus audax subdolus varius, cuius rei lubet simulator ac dissimulator; alieni adpetens, sui profusus, ardens in cupiditatibus: satis eloquentiae, sapientiae parum. Vastus animus inmoderata, incredibilia, nimis alta semper cupiebat. inediae-Fasting, enforced privation of food. Varius-versatile. Simulator ac dissimulator. What is there peculiar in the use of these nouns? Account for genitives inediae, alieni, sui. 10. Translate: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. fortem posce animum, mortis terrore carentem, Herculis aerumnas credat saevosque labores Monstro quod ipse tibi possis dare: semita certe Explain the subjunctives ponat, queat, etc. LATIN (MINOR) (a) Give the meaning and accusative singular form of pelagus and vulgus; also the meaning and accusative plural form of cadaver, nemus, vulnus, lis, os (the mouth), os (a bone). (b) Supply the other degrees of comparison of frugalior, magnificus, magnopere, junior, imus, vetus, propius. Give the meaning and principal parts of meto, pasco, posco, cado, caedo, volvo, resurgo, and the third person singular imperfect subjunctive of eo, fio, malo, audeo, cano, morior, sequor. What is the meaning of each of the following words and what cases do they respectively govern: doceo, interest, nubo, muto, peritus, orbatus, potior, opus, ignosco, dignus, fretus? (a) Translate into Latin: He said that already (antea) many opportunities had been let go (use proper form of omittere) by them. Therefore let them advance and at the first assault take the city by storm. (b) He was so pleasing to both citizens and foreigners that he was made consul the following year. What is meant by the Augustan Age of Rome? Mention, with the titles of their principal works, the four most celebrated Latin authors, who distinguished that historic period. 6. Translate: Genus hoc est ex essedis pugnae. Primo per omnes partes perequitant et tela coniciunt atque ipso terrore equorum et strepitu rotarum ordines plerumque perturbant, et cum se inter equitum turmas insinuaverunt, ex essedis desiliunt et pedibus proeliantur. Aurigae interim paulatim ex proelio excedunt atque ita currus collocant, ut, si illi a multitudine hostium premantur, expeditum ad suos receptum habeant. Essedis-War-chariots. Distinguish between primo and primum. 7. Translate: PVBLIVM SCIPIONEM, Marce fili, eum qui primus Africanus appellatus est, dicere solitum scripsit Cato, qui fuit eius fere aequalis, numquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus, nec minus solum quam cum solus esset. Magnifica vero vox et magno viro ac sapiente digna: quae declarat illum et in otio de negotiis cogitare et in solitudine secum loqui solitum, ut neque cessaret umquam et interdum conloquio alterius non egeret. Ita duae res, quae languorem adferunt ceteris, illum acuebant, otium et solitudo. Neque cessaret umquam was never unemployed. 8. Translate: Postquam res Asiae Priamique evertere gentem Scan the third and fourth lines of extract. 9. Translate: haec super arvorum cultu pecorumque canebam Write an explanatory note on the form oti (6th line). 10. Translate: Frustra cruento Marte carebimus Visendus ater flumine languido Linquenda tellus, et domus, et placens Úlla brevem dominum sequetur. Explain cases of Marte and laboris. Explain the metrical structure of these verses. MATHEMATICS.-(MAJOR). CALCULUS. 1. Obtain the x- derivative of (1 − x) √ 1+x. 2. Find the equation of the curve through (2, 3) which has the slope of its tangent equal to 3x+5. |