The New Latin Tutor, Or, Exercises in Etymology, Syntax and Prosody

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Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1831 - 350 pagine

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Pagina 253 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Pagina 253 - When in the slippery paths of youth With heedless steps I ran, Thine arm unseen conveyed me safe, And led me up to man. 4 When worn with sickness, oft hast Thou With health renewed my face; And, when in sins and sorrows sunk, Revived my soul with grace.
Pagina 219 - Vox quoque per lucos vulgo exaudita silentes Ingens ; et simulacra modis pallentia miris Visa sub obscurum noctis ; pecudesque locutae, Infandum ! sistunt amnes, terraeque dehiscunt, Et maestum illacrimat templis ebur, aeraque sudant.
Pagina 223 - Greta fertur Labyrinthus in alta Parietibus textum caecis iter, ancipitemque Mille viis habuisse dolum, qua signa sequendi...
Pagina 249 - Scandit aeratas vitiosa naves Cura, nee turmas equitum relinquit, Ocior cervis, et agente nimbos Ocior Euro. Laetus in praesens animus, quod ultra est, Oderit curare, et amara lento Temperet risu.
Pagina 253 - When all thy mercies, O my God, my rising soul surveys, transported with the view, I'm lost in wonder, love, and praise. No. 78. 3 2 O how shall words with equal warmth the gratitude declare, that .glows within my ravish'd heart! but thou canst read it there.
Pagina 223 - ... poma : Hie tamen hanc mecum poteris requiescere noctem Fronde super viridi. Sunt nobis mitia poma. An active verb may sometimes be changed into the passive voice, and a neuter verb into a verb impersonal, by altering the construction of the sentence ; as, insidiis capiere, for...
Pagina 203 - Your inability to preserve and defend it prove not infamous for you. Though this past behaviour of thine was beyond- all patience, Yet have I borne with it as I could. The structure of a period will be easily understood from these examples ; but as some difficulty will arise, where the simple idea does not immediately supply materials for the formation of the period, and as nothing contributes more to the true elegance of style, a few general...
Pagina 204 - Thus an additional clause explanatory of the subject, or denoting concession, &.C., may very easily be found out ; as, Industry without genius is of very little use ; It will soon occur to the mind that industry is very commendable, and that will form a period. Industry, though in itself very commendable, Is of little use without the help of genius. Or, Industry, if it be, or which is, without genius, &c. There are other methods of giving to a simple sentence the form of a period, which are more...
Pagina 29 - Pale death knocks at the cottages of the poor, and the palaces of kings, with an M Ccelum ipaum petinua.

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