r diamonds."

Carlyle's Defense of Burns's Personal Character.

(Only candidates taking _final_ examinations may choose the last.)

B

1 (_a_) Explain the significance of the italicized words and phrases:
"_Memorize_ another _Golgotha_"; "To _alter favor_ ever is
to fear"; "Wicked dreams _abuse_ The curtained sleep"; "But in them
_nature's copy's_ not _eterne_"; "His two chamberlains Will I
with wine and _wassail_ so _convince_."

(_b_) What important persons of the drama are absent from the banquet?
Where is each at that time? How far do these circumstances influence any
later events in the play?

(_c_) Give the substance of Malcolm's actions and utterances as far as
they are presented on the stage.

2 (_a_) What is said respecting the parentage of Mirth and Melancholy in
_L'Allegro_ and _Il Penseroso_? Interpret the meaning of each of
the various suggestions.

(_b_)
What was that snaky-headed Gorgon shield
That wise Minerva wore, unconquered virgin,
Wherewith she freezed her foes to congealed stone,
But rigid looks of chaste austerity,
And noble grace that dashed brute violence
With sudden adoration and blank awe?

_Locate the above quotation as exactly as you can, and show its relation
to the general subject of the poem. Explain fully the allusions in the
first three lines._

3 (_a_) "First, then, I cannot admit that proposition of a ransom by
auction, because it is a mere project.... Secondly, it is an experiment
which must be fatal in the end to our Constitution.... Thirdly, it does
not give satisfaction to the complaint of the Colonies." What was "that
proposition"? Give the substance of Burke's objections under the above
headings. What is the relation of this part of the speech to the whole?
Was the "proposition" accepted?

(_b_) What connection with the main argument has Burke's discussion
of slave-holding in the Colonies?

4 (_a_) Macaulay's remarks on _Comus_; (_b_) on Addison as a critic.

(1906)

A

_Write about two hundred words on each of three topics selected by
yourself from the following lists (of a pair of subjects enclosed in
brackets, choose but one):_

{The Banquet Scene in _Macbeth_.
{
{The Character of Antonio.

_The Jessamy Bride._

Gurth.

{The Contrast between Gareth and Geraint.
{
{Tennyson's Use of Natural Scenery in _The Passing of Arthur_.

A comparison of the Moral of _The Ancient Mar