Analyse Brutus, I do observe you now of late. 307 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 Gan fairely couch his speare, and towards ride: 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. (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 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 What time his pride had cast him out of heaven. 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 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, 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 2. Analyse: Me, though just right and the fixed laws of heaven Hath been achieved of merit,-yet this loss, 3. Explain the allusions in the following passages: (d) When Argo passed |