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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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THE SUSPICIOUS COCK AND HEN.

GOOD THINGS FROM DISTANT PLACES.

BEHAVIOUR AT MEALS.

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.

HERBERT AND HIS NEW CRIB,

A DISAPPOINTMENT.

THE BOY THAT WON'T LIE IN HIS CRIB.

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.

THE REQUEST DENIED.

PLEASURES GRANTED.

THE BOY THAT WOULD RATHER BE NAUGHTY THAN GOOD.

WHAT ARE LIQUORS MADE OF?

THE GOLDFINCH, or THISTLEFINCH.

THE USURPING BIRD.

THE HAPPY LITTLE SLEEPER.

THE BLESSING OF HEALTH.

THE HUMMING-BIRDS.

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]

[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]

[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.

THE WINDS, and WHERE THEY COME FROM.

ANIMALS IN LATIN.

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[Nemus and silva I've long understood]

Nemus and silva I've long understood,
Both are in Latin the names for a wood.
Olor and cygnus are Latin for swan;
Lately I saw one glide gracefully on:
Smooth was the stream that he rested upon,
White was his plumage on which the sun shone.