Latin Primer: a First Book of LatinGinn and Heath, 1880 |
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Ablative accusative Active adjectives Adverbs Ægypti Ægyptum ama'tus aquæ ātis audi'tus back book brought Caïnus called cap'tus Case conjugations cùm Dative Declension declined Deus dixit Ego sum ending ends English ĕris examples father fear feminine first following fratres FUTURE gallina generally girl give good Grammar great Greek hæc have heard Herodotus Hiawatha IMPERFECT INFINITIVE inis inquit Jacobus Josephus know Latin Learn learned Lesson like little loved made make masculine mean meaning means mon'itus Mood Moses navis nominative noun nouns object ōnis ōris ovum Participle Passive PERF Perfect person Ph.D Pharao place PLUPERFECT PLUR plural præ PRES Present PRONOUNS puella puls quæ quàm quum Rebecca rec'tus respondérunt same Second sentence sine SING Solon sometimes SUBJ subject Table take taken tenses thing Third thou tibi time Tunc used verb verbs verò Vocative VOICE word words
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Page 88 - Star. TWINKLE, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are ! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
Page 90 - Then the little Hiawatha Learned of every bird its language, Learned their names and all their secrets, How they built their nests in Summer, Where they hid themselves in Winter, Talked with them whene'er he met them, Called them
Page 127 - GOD, that madest earth and heaven, darkness and light; who the day for toil hast given, for rest the night; may thine angel-guards defend us, slumber sweet thy mercy send us, holy dreams and hopes attend us, this livelong night.
Page 98 - Hiawatha!" From the ground the quills he gathered, All the little shining arrows, Stained them red and blue and yellow, With the juice of roots and berries; Into his canoe he wrought them, Round its waist a shining girdle, Round its bows a gleaming necklace, On its breast two stars resplendent.
Page 98 - From a hollow tree the Hedgehog With his sleepy eyes looked at him, Shot his shining quills, like arrows. Saying with a drowsy murmur, Through the tangle of his wljiskers, "Take my quills, O Hiawatha!
Page 86 - THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW he north wind doth blow, And we shall have snow, And what will poor Robin do then, Poor thing?
Page 96 - Larch-Tree ! My canoe to bind together, So to bind the ends together That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me ! " And the Larch, with all its fibres, Shivered in the air of morning, Touched his forehead with its tassels. Said, with one long sigh of sorrow,
Page 88 - TWINKLE, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are ! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. When the blazing sun is gone, When he nothing shines upon, Then you show your little light, Twinkle, twinkle, all the night. Then the traveller in the dark, Thanks you for your tiny spark ! He could not see which way to go, If you did not twinkle so. In the dark blue sky you keep, And often through my curtains peep, For you never shut your eye Till the sun is in the sky. As your bright...
Page 90 - Go, my son, into the forest, Where the red deer herd together, Kill for us a famous roebuck, Kill for us a deer with antlers!
Page 98 - Thus the Birch Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom of the forest ; And the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch-tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews ; And it floated on the river Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily.