Clivus, elementary exercises in Latin elegiac verse, Volume 2 |
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abode adjectives amid band Bedford School bewail birds Books brave breast breeze bright brighter brother Cacus Calypso conquered Croesus dark death docet dost thou earth ELEGIAC VERSE Elision ēst eyes Fabii fame fate father Faunus fear Felicia Hemans flames flies flowers flows FRANCIS STORR G. L. BENNETT gentle gerundive gifts give glory gods Greek grief grove hand hear heart heaven Hendiadys hills honour hour joyful joys Jupiter king labour land Lars Porsena Latin light limbs maiden mind night o'er peace perish Philomela pine plural Plutus praise race Ratlin recall rise river rocks Rule Rutulian sailor Scotland seek shine shore sing smile snow songs sorrow sound Sparta Spring stars storm strain stream summer sweet tears thee things Tobias Smollett toil trumpet utter voice wandering wave wealth weary weep WINCHESTER COLLEGE winds wing wood
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Page 104 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath; Who envies none that chance doth raise...
Page 88 - Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Page 76 - 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 ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 88 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free.
Page 90 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 104 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend ; This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 44 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread ; My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For thou, O Lord, art with me still ; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious lonely wilds I stray.
Page 44 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, •And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 88 - When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame...
Page 62 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form. The flames...