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II. (a) Fill in the blanks in the following enumeration of Italy's

III.

"contrasted faults."

"Though poor, -; though submissive,
Though grave, yet - -; zealous, yet -

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(b) Write out consul Aulus' “bitter jest." Add an interpretation of your own.

(c) Give short quotations from "Hohenlinden" to show (1) the place of battle, (2) its natural features, (3) time of day and year, (4) the contending parties, (5) the kind of troops conspicuously employed, (6) the sanguinary character of the battle.

(a) Substitute a single word for each of the expressions in italics.

(1)

"The circle bounding earth and skies.”

(2) "Forced from their homes, a melancholy train."

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(5)

"To speak the malison of heaven."

(b) Explain briefly the following expressions,

(1) "With patient angle trolls the finny deep."
(2) “The naked negro panting at the line."
(3) "The proud Ides of Quintilis

Marked evermore with white."

(4) "Tibur marched."

(5) “Behold a parted warrior's cross.”
(6) "Or beal fires for your jubilee."

IV. Accentuate, and divide into feet, the following lines.

Point out any peculiarities.

(1)

"And Niagara stuns with thundering sound."

(2)

"The swine crush the big acorns

That fall from Corne's oaks."

(3) "O'Connor's plumed partisans."

V. Distinguish between

(1) Mail and Male,

(2) Canvas and Canvass,

(3) Tear (verb) and Tear (noun),

(4) Corpse and Corps,
(5) Desert and Dessert,

(6) Fowl and Foul,

(7) Soul and Sole.

VI. (a) What is Alliteration? Give two instances of it from these poems.

(b) Parse "Coming events cast their shadows before."

(c) Give derivation of

(1) Nostril,-(2) Insult,―(3) Amphibious,-(4) Pomp,(5) Palace,—(6) Sympathy.

PART II.

VII. Name and define the class of composition to which Sintram and his companions belongs.

(a) What moral do you gather from the story? VIII. (a)

Who was the guest in pilgrim's garb whom Sintram found at his father's table? Give the grounds of your answer.

(b) What circumstance excited Folko's suspicion that the Hamburg merchants had been ill-treated by Biorn himself?

IX. Read over the following extracts and answer the questions subjoined to each.

A. "Some weeks after this, in the twilight of evening, Sintram, very disturbed, came down to the castle garden. Although the presence of Gabrielle never failed to soothe and calm him, yet if she left the apartment for even a few instants, the fearful wildness of his spirit seemed to return with renewed strength. So even now, after having long and kindly read legends of the olden times to his father Biorn she had retired to her chamber."

(a) Criticise the opening of the last sentence.

(b) How would you express the author's meaning correctly?

(c) Point out another fault in the passage.

(d) Give synonyms which might be substituted for the

words in italics.

(e) Parse weeks:

B. "If too at times a thought of the knight Paris and Helen would influence his heart with bolder and wilder wishes, it needed but one look at his scarf and his sword, and the stream of his inner life glided again clear as a mirror and serene within."

(a) Explain the force of would and of the and after sword. (b) What does it stand for?

(c) Give the meaning of the last member of the sentence without metaphor.

C. "There is nothing in the world which I should like
better, dear Rolf, answered Sintram, but it does not
befit me to shun any man. Tell me, whom should I
find with my father ?""

(a) Give the positive and superlative degrees of better.
(b) Might would be substituted for the first should and
shall for the second? If not, why not?

X. Paraphrase the following passage, turning Folko's speech into indirect narration, and taking particular care to bring out the logical bearing of the clause in italics.

Folko bowed, gracefully thanking his lady, and replied: "Come with your knight, since such is your pleasure, and be to him a bright guiding star. It is a good old northern custom, that ladies should be present at knightly combats, and no true warrior of the north will fail to respect the place whence beams the light of their eyes." Unless, 'indeed,' continued he with an inquiring look at Biorn, unless Jarl Eric is not worthy of his forefathers.""

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(a) Shew the inaccuracy of the clause unless indeed, &c.

XI. Explain the following phrases and sentences:

Sharp features, whispering boughs, canting talk; The doors fly together, Thou standest no higher than he, Thou hast thrown thyself back for years.

TUESDAY, 21ST DEC., 10 A.M. TO 1 P.M.
SANSKRIT: GRAMMAR, &c.

F. KIELHORN, PH.D.

I. When is changed to in the interior of a simple word?

II. Decline पति masc. in the Singular, परिव्राज्

the Dual, and neut. in the Plural.

masc. in

III. Decline in the Neuter Singular, and in the Masc. Plural.

IV. How do you form the reduplicative syllable of roots beginning with two or more consonants? Give examples.

V. Give all the persons of the Imperfect Parasmai. of H.

VI. Enumerate the roots after which is never prefixed to the terminations of the Redupl. Perfect.

VII. Give all the persons of the Aorist Parasmai. of dwell.'

'to

VIII. Give the meaning and etymology of आहव, ऋत्विज,

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IX. Parse the following forms, and state which of them are in

correct: अभीप्सितम्, अयाचत्,
अयाचत्, आनाय्य, उषित्वा,
प्रतिपत्स्यति, रुदन्तीम्, विश्वसेत्.

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X. Which case is governed by

T, H, and similar

words? Give examples from the books you have studied.

XI. Give the titles and contents of the different Kandas of the Râmâyana as given in the introduction.

XII. Translate into English :

(a) पाठे गेये च मधुरं प्रमाणैस्त्रिभिरन्वितम् ॥
तन्त्रीगीतैश्र मधुरैरन्वितं सप्तभिः स्वरैः ।
जातिभिः सप्तभिर्युक्तं श्रोतश्रुतिमनोहरम् ॥
श्टङ्गारवीरबीभत्सरौद्रहास्यभयानकैः ।
करुणाद्भुतशान्तैश्च युक्तं काव्यरसैरपि ॥
(b) नैषामविदितं किंचित्स्वेषु चैव परेषु च ।
चिकीर्षितं क्वचिद्राज्ञो मित्रोदासीनविद्विषाम् ॥
पुत्त्रे ऽपिच प्राप्तदोषे धर्मतो दण्डपातिनः ।
द्रोग्धारश्च धर्मेण शत्रोरप्यकृतागसः ॥
(c) नासीदपकृतं तेषां स्खलितं चापि किञ्चन ।
परेण ह्यवधानेन तं क्रतुं ते प्रचक्रिरे ॥

न तेष्वहः मु कृपणः चुत्क्लमो वापि दृश्यते ।
तिर्यच्वपि कुतो ऽन्येषु भूतेष्वपरितर्पितः ॥

TUESDAY, 21ST DEC., 2 TO 5 P.M.

SANSKRIT: TRANSLATION.

F. KIELHORN, PH.D.

I. Translate into Sanskrit :

(a) We should obtain (Potential of H) fame if we died

(Pot. of मृ) in defence of our country.

(b) Permit (Imperat. of ज्ञा with अनु)

me to go.

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