Some words pronounced nearly alike.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 4. Distinguish carefully any differences in the sounds of words nearly alike.

1. These are the tales, or new or old,

In idle moments idly told.

-HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

2. As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.

-SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.

3. Content to be allowed at last To sing his Idyl of the Past.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

4. The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow.

5. There by the door a hoary-headed sire

Touched with his withered hand an ancient lyre.

6. He was, in fact, the greatest liar I had met with

then, or since. — CHARLES LAMB.

7. A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. - CHARLES LAMB.

8. Who cares how many stamens or pistils that little brown flower, which comes out before the leaf,

may have to classify it by?

- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

Some words pronounced nearly alike.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 4. Distinguish carefully the sounds of words nearly alike.

1. See what a lovely shell,

Small and pure as a pearl,

Made so fairly well

With delicate spire and whorl! - ALFRED TENNYSON.

2. They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.

3. Beneath a summer sky

From flower to flower let him fly.

- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

4. For if the flour be fresh and sound,
And if the bread be light and sweet,
Who careth in what mill 'twas ground?

6. And the smile and the tear, and the song and the

dirge,

Still follow each other like surge upon surge.

7. Thou serge, nay, thou buckram lord!

- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Some words pronounced nearly alike.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 4. Distinguish carefully the sounds of words nearly alike.

1. Ye holy walls that still sublime,

Resist the crumbling touch of time. -ROBERT Burns.

2. And yet I know enough

Not to be wholly ignorant. - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 3. Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills Louder and louder purl the falling rills.

-ALEXANDER POPE.

4. This rhyme is like the fair pearl necklace of the

queen,

That burst in dancing and the pearls were spilt.

- ALFRED TENNYSON.

5. In Russia, at the present moment, the aristocracy are dictated to by their emperor much as they themselves dictate to their serfs.

- HERBERT SPENCER.

To be made honest by an act of parliament,

I should not alter in my faith of him.-BEN JONSON.

A useful prefix.

inter means between, as, interline, to write or insert between the lines.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation.

1. Then, rising with Aurora's light,

2.

3.

4.

The Muse invoked, sit down to write;
Blot out, correct, insert, refine,

Enlarge, diminish, interline. - JONATHAN SWIFT.

The forest told

Of grassy paths and wood-lawns interspersed
With overarching elms, and caverns cold,
And violet banks where sweet dreams brood.
-PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

I did laugh without intermission
An hour by his dial. -WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

Sweet interchange

Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains,

Now land, now sea, and shores with forests crowned.

-JOHN MILTON.

5. Where even the motion of an Angel's wing
Would interrupt the intense tranquillity
Of silent hills, and more than silent sky.

6. Fresh woodbines climb and interlace, And keep the loosened stones in place.

Some words pronounced nearly alike.

1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 4. Distinguish carefully the sound of words nearly alike.

1. King of England shalt thou be proclaimed In every borough. - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

2. And on the lawn - within its turfy mound —

The rabbit made its burrow. — THOMAS HOOD.

3. Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,

Cannon in front of them,

Volley'd and thunder'd. — ALFREd Tennyson.

4. It is a canon of philosophy not to seek for unknown. causes when known causes sufficiently explain

5. Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor. -DANIEL WEBSTER.

6. Such London is, by taste and wealth proclaimed The fairest capital of all the world. - WILLIAM Cowper. 7. Talking French to Miss Pinkerton was capital fun.

8.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.

There the capitol thou seest

Above the rest lifting his stately head.-JOHN MILTON.