Translate the following passage into Greek Prose :

Englishmen must look to this as a species of contest from which, by the extraordinary favour of Divine Providence, we have been for a long series of years exempted. If we are now at length called upon to take our share in it, we must meet it with just gratitude for the exemptions we have hitherto enjoyed, and with a firm determination to support it with courage and resolution; we must shew ourselves worthy, by our conduct on this occasion, of the happiness which we have hitherto enjoyed, and which, by the blessing of God, I hope we shall continue to enjoy. We ought to have a due sense of the magnitude of the danger with which we are threatened; we ought to meet it in that temper of mind which produces just confidence, which neither despises nor dreads the enemy; and while on the one hand we accurately estimate the danger with which we are threatened at this awful crisis, we must recollect on the other hand what it is we have at stake, what it is we have to contend for. It is for our property, it is for our liberty, it is for our independence, nay, for our existence as a nation; it is for our character, it is for our very name as Englishmen, it is for every thing dear and valuable to man on this side of the grave.

Translate the following passage into Latin Verse :

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Alas! with swift and silent pace,
Impatient time rolls on the year;
The seasons change, and nature's face
Now sweetly smiles, now frowns severe.
'Twas Spring, 'twas Summer, all was gay,
Now Autumn bends a cloudy brow;
The flowers of Spring are swept away,
And Summer fruits desert the bough.
The verdant leaves that play'd on high,
And wanton'd on the western breeze,
Now trod in dust neglected lie,

As Boreas strips the bending trees.

The fields that wav'd with golden grain,
As russet heaths are wild and bare;
Not moist with dew, but drench'd in rain,
Nor health, nor pleasure wanders there.

No more, while thro' the midnight shade,
Beneath the moon's pale orb I stray,
Soft pleasing woes my heart invade,
As Progne pours the melting lay.

From this capricious climb she soars,
O! would some God but wings supply!
To where each morn the Spring restores,
Companion of her flight I'd fly.

Modern History.

PROFESSOR BARLOW.

I.

1. What is Hume's explanation of the quarrel between Edward IV. and the Earl of Warwick? On what grounds does Lingard reject it? Assign a more satisfactory explanation.

2. Give some account of the adventures of Henry, Earl of Richmond, in Brittany, during the reign of Edward IV.

3. Give Bacon's account of the Cornish insurrection in the reign of Henry VII. The course Henry held towards the rebels was utterly differing from his former custom and practice? How does Bacon explain the King's lenity after the suppression of the rebellion?

4. After the parliament of the seventh year of Henry VII. was broken up, he "neglected not the affairs of Maximilian for the quieting of Flanders, and restoring him to his authority amongst his subjects." What measures did he adopt?

5. Various causes co-operated in bringing about the insurrection called the Pilgrimage of Grace. Explain these.

6. Write a chronicle of England from the execution of the Queen of Scots to the death of Queen Elizabeth.

7. According to Philip de Commines, personal interviews between princes, in order to adjust their differences, are generally more prejudicial than profitable. He gives several examples of this?

8. Give his account of the battle of Grauson, its cause, and results.

9. Give the history of the war between Louis XII. and Pope Julius II.

10. Write a short life of the Constable Charles, Duke of Bourbon.

11. Give an account of the progress of the Reformation in France during the latter years of the reign of Henry II.

12. What memorable events in the history of France took place between the 22nd of December, 1588, and the 3rd of August, 1589?

II.

1. What account does Hallam give of the general character of Lord Burleigh's administration ?

2. Hallam considers that the House of Commons under the Tudor princes, and especially Elizabeth, was not so feeble and insignificant an assembly as has been often insinuated. What are his reasons?

3. And yet he shows, by several striking instances, that the security against arbitrary taxation under Henry VII. and Henry VIII. was small indeed?

4. Give some account of the proceedings of the "Council of Blood" in the Netherlands. A memorable sentence was passed by the" Holy Office" on the 16th of February, 1568?

5. Relate the history of the siege of Antwerp, 1584-5.

6. What were the most important events in the reign of the Emperor Ferdinand I. ?

7. What circumstances led to the battle of Lepanto? Give an account of the battle. Three subsequent Governors of the Netherlands were present at it.

8. Write a short history of the Smalcaldic war.

9. What was the Interim? By what events was it occasioned, and to what results did it lead ?

10. Write short accounts of (a) the conspiracy of Fiesco, (b) the Edict of January, 1562, (c) Solyman and Roxolana.

Modern Literature.

COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR.

DR. ATKINSON.

1. Give a connected account of the Romance changes of c (and g) before the hard and soft vowels, respectively.

2. Exhibit some of the more prominent changes which final consonants undergo in the different languages.

3. Show the modification of the nasals in the beginning, middle, and end of words.

4. The Romance displacement of mutes proceeds in an opposite direction to the Teutonic?

5. Give the derivation of embler, coudre, métier, tante, brebis, chêne, pêche, coussin, chasser, souvent, juif, soif, essuyer, orfraie, ancêtre, mêler; in every case, if possible, stating the principle by which the change is produced.

ENGLISH LITERATURE.

PROFESSOR DOWDEN.

I.-1. Briefly set down the chief points of Sidney's argument in defence of Poetry.

2. Mention the most interesting particulars in Sidney's criticism of contemporary English poetry.

II.-. Exhibit your acquaintance as fully as you can with a passage from some one drama by each of the following writers: Webster, Ford, Fletcher. If you can give quotations, do so.

2. Mention any passages in Lamb's "Specimens" which struck you as resembling passages in Shakspeare. Notice the points of resemblancs and of contrast.

3. In what plays do you find the following characters :-Raymond Mounchensey, Mrs. Frankford, Captain Ager, Face, Evadne, Berinthia, Mosca, the painter Bazardo, Vindici, Valdes and Cornelius?

III.—1. What does the Authorized Version of the Bible owe to the Rheims and Douay Version?

2. What is the link which connects Chaucer's first four poems?

3. What is the rhyme-test used to ascertain the genuineness of poems ascribed to Chaucer?

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4. Name the principal poems of Robert Henryson.

5. What works of the same period may be classed with Sidney's Apologie"?

6. Who was the "Stella" of Sidney's poems ?

7. What are the chief English collections of Miracle Plays?

8. What is the most important of Marlowe's non-dramatic writings?

9. Name the most important of the lost works of Spenser.

10. What is the subject of "Mother Hubbard's Tale"?

MR. BARLOW.

1. Point out (a) the similarities, (b) the special characteristics, of the First and Second Books of the "Faery Queen."

2. Give an account of the episode of Braggadocchio and Trompart.

3. Write out the stanzas in Canto VIII., Book ii., which describe the care of the angelic hosts for the race of man.

4. Write explanatory notes on the following lines:→→
(a). "The frame thereof seemd partly circulare,
And part triangulare, O worke divine;
Those two the first and last proportions are;

The one imperfect, mortall, faeminine;
Th' other immortall, perfect, masculine;
And twixt them both a quadrate was the base,
Proportiond equally by seven and nine;
Nine was the circle set in heaven's place:
All which compacted made a goodly Dyapase."

5. (b). "Emongst them all sate he which wonned there,
That hight Phantastes by his nature trew;
A man of yeares yet fresh, as mote appere,
Of swarth complexion, and of crabbed hew,
That him full of melancholy did shew;

Bent hollow beetle browes, sharpe staring eyes
That mad or foolish seemd: one by his vew
Mote deeme him borne with ill disposed skyes,
When oblique Saturne sate in th' house of agonyes."
6. (c). "There mournfull cypresse grew in greatest store,
And trees of bitter gall, and heben sad,
Dead sleeping poppy, and black hellebore,
Cold coloquintida, and tetra mad,

Mortall samnitis, and cicuta bad,

With which th' unjust Atheniens made to dy
Wise Socrates, who thereof quaffing glad
Pourd out his life and last philosophy

To the faire Critias, his dearest belamy."

7. Draw an outline map of the Iland of Utopia.

8. Relate the "very pleasaunt tale" concerning the Ambassadoures of the Anemolians to Amaurote.

9. What were the Utopian customs with respect to (a) hunting, (b) lawyers, (c) suicide?

10. Write a description of the religions in Utopia.

FRENCH.

DR. ATKINSON.

1. In his third work (les P. R.) Molière opened out a new path f

2. 'Les précieuses ridicules' is an introduction to 'les femmes savantes'?

3. 'Il regardait le dénoûment des femmes savantes comme un des plus parfaits qui fussent au théâtre.'

In what respects is this opinion correct?

4. Molière is probably indebted in both plays to the Don Quijote of Cervantes?

5. (a). Compare the characters in the two plays.

(b). In both, he has two characters, which though similar, are well differentiated.

(c). Quote any specimens of la préciosité of the different characters. 6. Illustrate Molière's manner of producing comic effects by the repetition of certain phrases (ex. gr. there are certain adverbs specially so used in les P. R.)

(b). Explain the following words or passages from the two plays :1. deux pecques provinciales.

2. nous allons faire pic repic et capot.

3. mon congé cent fois me fût-il hoc.

4. mettre mon esprit hors de page.

5. leurs rabats ne sont pas de la bonne faiseuse.

6. que vous semble de ma petite oie?

7. c'est un brave à trois poils.

(c). Note any points (with examples from the two plays) in which Molière's language differs from that of the present day; ex. gr. in