Latin Primer: A First Book of Latin for Boys and GirlsGinn and Heath, 1880 - 155 pages |
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Ablative accusative adjectives ama'ti ama'tus animal ātis audi'ti audi'tus back Betula book Caïnus called cap'ti cap'tus Case CONJUGATION cùm Dative Declension declined Deus ending ends English eris fac'ilis fear feminine first following FUTURE gallina generally genitive give good Grammar great Greek hæc have hear heard Hiawatha IMPERATIVE IMPERFECT INDIC INFINITIVE inis inquit Jacobus Josephus know Latin Lesson like little love loved made make masculine mean meaning means mihi mon'iti mon'itus navis nominative noun nouns object ōnis ōris ovum Participle Passive PERF PERFECT Person Ph.D Pharao place PLUPERFECT PLUR plural præ PRES PRESENT PRONOUNS puls quâ quæ quædam quàm quum rec'ti rec'tus round same second sentence sine SING singular Solon sometimes Stabat Mater SUBJ subject Table take taken Tellum tenses thing Third thou tibi time Tunc used verb verbs verò 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 96 - Cedar ! Of your strong and pliant branches, My canoe to make more steady, Make more strong and firm beneath me!" Through the summit of the Cedar Went a sound, a cry of horror, Went a murmur of resistance; But it whispered, bending downward, "Take my boughs, O Hiawatha!
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 128 - Animula vagula, blandula, Hospes comesque corporis, Quae nunc abibis in loca? Pallidula, rigida, nudula, Nee (ut soles) dabis joca...
Page 94 - Birch-Tree ! Growing by the rushing river, Tall and stately in the valley ! I a light canoe will build me, Build a swift Cheemaun for sailing, That shall float upon the river, Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily ! " Lay aside your cloak, O Birch-Tree ! Lay aside your white-skin wrapper, For the Summer-time is coming, And the sun is warm in heaven, And you need no white-skin wrapper...
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 96 - Shivered in the air of morning, Touched his forehead with its tassels, Said, with one long sigh of sorrow, '
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 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!