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Pretty Lessons in Verse

for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin, in Easy Rhyme. By Sara Coleridge. The Fourth Edition, with Many Cuts
Coleridge, Sara Coleridge (1802-1852)

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BENONI.
 
THE MONTHS.
 
THE WEEK.
 
THE STORM.
 
THE SUSPICIOUS COCK AND HEN.
 
TREES.
 
FRUIT.
 
THE PRUNE.
 
THE RUNAWAYS.
 
GOOD THINGS FROM DISTANT PLACES.
 
BEHAVIOUR AT MEALS.
 
THE MAD BULL.
 
THE MAD BUFFALO.
 
WHAT MAKES A NOISE?
 
SPLASH AND FLASH.
 
MAMA'S ADVICE TO HERBERT.
 
THE MOUSE'S RETALIATION.
 
THE PEACOCK AND THE SWALLOW.
 
THE NIGHTINGALE.
 
WARNINGS OF THE WEATHER.
 
FOOLISH INTERFERENCE.
 
MONKEYS WITHOUT TAILS.
 
SIGNS OF RAIN.
 
TO HERBERT,
 
HERBERT AND HIS NEW CRIB,
 
A DISAPPOINTMENT.
 
THE BOY THAT WON'T LIE IN HIS CRIB.
 
EI and IE.
 
DESERT AND DESSERT.
 
HOW TO SPELL CHEST-NUT, or CHESNUT.
 
THE WILD AND TAME CANARIES.
 
HERBERT'S BEVERAGE.
 
THE GENEROUS HUMBLE or BUMBLE BEES.
 
FINE NAMES FOR FINE THINGS.
 
GOING TO BED.
 
THE REQUEST DENIED.
 
PLEASURES GRANTED.
 
THE SEASONS.
 
THE SQUIRREL.
 
THE BOY THAT WOULD RATHER BE NAUGHTY THAN GOOD.
 
WHAT ARE LIQUORS MADE OF?
 
THE GOLDFINCH, or THISTLEFINCH.
 
POPPIES.
 
BIRDS' FOOD.
 
THE ROSE.
 
THE USURPING BIRD.
 
EDITH ASLEEP.
 
THE HAPPY LITTLE SLEEPER.
 
THE BLESSING OF HEALTH.
 
THE HUMMING-BIRDS.
 
PROVIDENCE.
 
CHILDISH TEARS.
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LESSONS IN LATIN.
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[A Father is pater, a mother is mater]
 
[Ramus means a bough]
 
[A bird is called avis]
 
[That rex is a king, regina a queen]
 
[I fear the wise folks will deride us]
 
[Stagnum means a pool]
 
[Saltus is a lawn or glade]
 
[Grando is hail, and tonitru thunder]
 
[Aura means a gentle breeze]
 
[Nox is the night]
 
[A boy like my Herbert should ne'er]
 
[Rice is oryza, and milium millet]
 
[Dens is a tooth, gingīva the gum]
 
[Nemus and silva I've long understood]
 
[Sol is the sun]
 
[A meadow is pratum, a flower is called flos]
 
[Crater and likewise cratēra, I think]
 
[The lion in Africa reigns]
 
CORN.
 
[Hearing is audītus]
 
THE LOST SPOON AND FORK.
 
[Aqua is water, and unda a wave]
 
[Mare means the sea]
 
[The top of a tree cacūmen is called]
 
[Virga's a rod, flagellum a whip]
 
[Cæna is supper, and prandium dinner]
 
[An army is exercĭtus—it causes great dismay]
 
PLANTS.
 
[An army is exercĭtus]
 
[Trumpeter's tubĭcen, piper tibīcen]
 
[Tibia's a flute, which is very sweet]
 
[A Town is called oppĭdum, urbs is a city]
 
[Domus means a house, aula means a hall]
 
[Caudex, and codex, and stirps, all three]
 
[Cortex means the bark, fructus means the fruit]
 
[A shrub is called frutex, and arbor's a tree]
 
[Hoar frost is pruīna, and pluvia's rain]
 
[A father's brother, mother's brother, are not called the same]
 
PAIN AND PUNISHMENT.
 
WORDS ALIKE AND UNLIKE.
 
[Patĕra's a goblet]
 
PRICKLES AND THORNS.
 
[Ovis means a sheep]
 
[Lupus means a wolf]
 
THE DECLENSIONS.
 
THE FIVE DECLENSIONS.
 
BEES.
 
THE WINDS, and WHERE THEY COME FROM.
 
ANIMALS IN LATIN.
 
FRUITS.
 
THE SEA.
 
FLOWERS.
 
AGRICULTURE.
 
PASTORALS.
 
FIRE, &c.
 
THE SHIP.
 
THE VINE.
 
FIGHTING.
 
BIRDS.
 
INSECTS.
 
TREES.
 
MORE TREES.

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5

BENONI.

DEDICATION.

My Herbert, yet thou hast not learnt to prize
Parental love that hovers o'er thee still;
No heavy hours hast thou—no sorrows fill
Thy childish bosom when thou hear'st my sighs;
But thy fresh cheeks and pretty gleaming eyes,
Thy careless mirth, bring happiness to me;
No anxious pitying love I ask of thee—
Be thoughtless still while swift thy childhood flies.
Hereafter thou, my Herbert, wilt discern
With tender thoughtfulness this heart of mine
That ask'd no present love, no full return;
And then, while youthful hopes within thee burn,
May'st dream that one to whom thy thoughts incline
E'en so may love some cherish'd child of thine!
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