The new delectus; or, Easy steps to Latin construing

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Page 81 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 125 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 149 - Pater noster, qui es in coelis; sanctificetur nomen tuum ; adveniat regnum tuum, fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie ; et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris ; et ne nos inducas in tentationem ; sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
Page 140 - Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores : Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves ; Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves ; Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes ; Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves.
Page 111 - Cum decidisset vulpes in puteum inscia, Et altiore clauderetur margine, Devenit hircus sitiens in eundem locum : Simul rogavit, esset an dulcis liquor, Et copiosus ; illa fraudem moliens, " Descende, amice, tanta bonitas est aquae, Voluptas ut satiari non possit mea.
Page 125 - ... et tepidum volucres concentibus aera mulcent, ludit et in pratis luxuriatque pecus. tum blandi soles, ignotaque prodit hirundo et luteum celsa sub trabe figit opus : tum patitur cultus ager et renovatur aratro. 160 haec anni novitas iure vocanda fuit.
Page 148 - Diliges Dominum Deum tuum ex toto corde tuo, et ex tota anima tua, et ex omnibus viribus tuis, et ex omni mente tua : et proximum tuum sicut teipsum.
Page 236 - If no nominative come between the relative and the verb, the relative is the nominative to the verb...
Page 153 - Harmless all malice if our God is nigh ; Fruitless all pains, if he his help deny. Patient I pass these gloomy hours away, And wait the morning of eternal day.

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