Analyse

Brutus, I do observe you now of late.
I have not from your eyes that gentleness,
And show of love, as I was wont to have:
You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
Over your friend that loves you.

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EXAMINATION PAPERS

SET AT THE

OXFORD LOCAL EXAMINATIONS,

1870-1873.

JUNIOR CANDIDATES, 1870.

1.

Analysis, Parsing, &c.

[N. B. EVERY candidate is required to satisfy the examiners in this paper. Attention should be paid to spelling, handwriting, punctuation, and correctness of expression.

Candidates should pay very strict attention to the parsing. As regards the rest of this paper, they are recommended not to dwell too long over any single question, but (if possible) to answer the whole of the questions.]

The knight of the Redcrosse when him he spide
Spurring so hote with rage dispiteous,

Gan fairely couch his speare, and towards ride:
Soone meete they both, both fell and furious,
That daunted with their forces hideous,
Their steeds do stagger, and amazed stand,
And eke themselves, too rudely rigorous,
Astonied with the stroke of their own hand,
Do back rebut, and each to other yeeldeth land.

1. Parse each word printed in italics, explaining its grammatical con nection with other words in the sentence in which it occurs,

2. Notice every obsolete expression and mode of spelling.

3. Give an account of the English auxiliary verbs.

4. What is an adverb? How are adverbs classified?

5. Explain the following words and phrases occurring in the Faery Queene, Bk. I. Canto ii.:

6. Explain the allusions contained in these expressions:

(a) Where Tiberis doth pas.

(b) His sevenfold teme.
(c) The rosy fingered morning.
(d) The stedfast starre.

(e) Sad Proserpine's wrath.

7. Give an account of Fradubio, and of the three Sarazin brothers.

8. Analyse this passage:

Long time they thus together traveiled,

Till, weary of their way, they came at last,

Where grew two goodly trees, that faire did spred
Their armes abroad, with gray mosse overcast;
And their greene leaves trembling with every blast,
Made a calme shadow far in compasse round.

JUNIOR CANDIDATES, 1871.

2.

Analysis, Parsing, &c.

[N. B. Every candidate is required to satisfy the examiners in this paper. Attention should be paid to spelling, handwriting, punctuation, and correctness of expression.

Candidates should pay very strict attention to the parsing. As regards the rest of this paper, they are recommended not to dwell too long over any single question, but (if possible) to answer the whole of the questions.]

1. Analyse:

Yet not for those,

Nor what the potent Victor in his rage

Can else inflict, do I repent or change,

Though changed in outward lustre, that fixed mind,

And high disdain from sense of injured merit,

That with the Mightiest raised me to contend.

2. Parse every word in the following passage:

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine
Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast
Of some great amiral, were but a wand,
He walked with.

What time his pride had cast him out of heaven.
What though the field be lost.

4. In the following passages explain the allusions, and illustrate, if necessary, by other passages from Paradise Lost, Book I :

(2)

Of flutes and soft recorders.

Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views.

(k) When Charlemain with all his peerage fell
By Fontarabbia.

5. What is meant by gender in grammar? Give instances.

The moon whose orb

6. Express in simple words the meaning of the following passage:

Say, muse, their names then known, who first, who last,
Roused from their slumber on that fiery couch,
At their great emperor's call, as next in worth
Came singly where he stood on the bare strand,
While the promiscuous crowd stood yet aloof.

JUNIOR CANDIDATES, 1873.

3.

Analysis, Parsing, &c.

[N. B. Every candidate is required to satisfy the examiners in this paper. Attention should be paid to spelling, handwriting, punctuation, and correctness of expression.

Candidates should pay very strict attention to the parsing. As regards the rest of this paper, they are requested not to dwell too long over any single question, but (if possible) to answer the whole of the questions.]

1. Parse every word in the following passage:

Intermit no watch

Against a wakeful foe, while I, abroad,

Through all the coasts of dark destruction seek
Deliverance for us all.

2. Analyse:

Me, though just right and the fixed laws of heaven
Did first create your leader, next free choice,
With what besides in counsel or in fight

Hath been achieved of merit,-yet this loss,
Thus far at least recovered, hath much more
Established-.

3. Explain the allusions in the following passages:

(d)

When Argo passed
Through Bosphorus, betwixt the justling rocks.