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Some words pronounced alike.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. italicized words in sentences of your own.

1. With common wants and common cares, Which sow the human heart with tares.

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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

2. I am not mad: this hair I tear is mine.

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3. Everything comes if a man will only wait.

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4. Nor lift your load before you're quite aware What weight your shoulders will, or will not, bear.

- GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON.

5. The thirsty earth soaks up the rain. - ABRAHAM COWLEY.

6. As when Night is bare

From one lonely cloud

The moon rains out her beams, and Heaven is overflowed. - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

7. Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

S. My tongue within my lips I rein,

For who talks much, must talk in vain. —John Gay.

9. The queen of night asserts her silent reign.

—George Gordon, Lord BYRON.

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1. As sure1 as I have a thought or a soul.

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- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

2. Around it still the sumacs 1 grow,

And blackberry vines are running.

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3. Yet e'en this cheerless mansion shall provide More heart's repose than all the world beside.

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4. Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitude and longitude. - HENRY DAvid Thoreau.

5. Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU.

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9. Think that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.

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JACOB BOBART.

10. All hush'd-there's not a breeze in motion; 5 The shore is silent as the ocean. - THOMAS Moore.

Some words pronounced alike.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own.

1. Hunting the hart in forest green. - SIR WALTER Scott.

2. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY.

3. Life! we've been long together

Through pleasant and through cloudy weather.

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4. And stately oaks their twisted arms, Threw broad and dark across the pool.

ROBERT BUrns.

5. As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon.

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6. I would you were as I would have you be ! Would it be better, madam, than I am?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

7. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl.

-JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

8. Nature's children all divide her care,
The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

· ALEXANDER POPE.

9. These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

10. Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws.

- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

Long a preserved in syllables without accent, marked a.

1. Copy the following sentences. 2. Write from dictation.

1. Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps,

Cheerfully from the stars he peeps,

Mortals are all asleep below,

None in the village hears him go. -JOHN PETER HEBEL.

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3. The world goes up and the world goes down.
And the sunshine follows the rain;

And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown
Can never come over again. — CHarles Kingsley.

4. With equal pace, impartial Fate

Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate. - HORACE.

5. The moon's fair image quaketh
In the raging waves of ocean,
While she, in the vault of heaven,

Moves with silent peaceful motion. — HEINRICH HEINE.

6. The sun can image itself in a tiny dewdrop or in the mighty ocean. - RICHARD C. TRENCH.

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Long preserved in syllables without accent, marked .

2. Write from dictation.

1. Copy the following sentences. 1. I care not, Fortune, what you me deny; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face.

-JAMES THOMSON.

2. We hold these truths to be self-evident, — that all men are created equal. - THOMAS JEFferson.

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Nature never did betray

The heart that loved her. - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

4. Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief.

- WILLIAM COWPER.

5. But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat.

ALEXANDER Pope.

6. Out upon Time! who forever will leave

But enough of the past for the future to grieve.

- GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON. 7. Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image.-JOHANN W. GOETHE.

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