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 sounds of words nearly alike. 1. Jails and state prisons are the complement of schools: so many less as you have of the latter, so many more you must have of the former. HORACE MANN. 2. To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. - GEORGE MACDONALD. 3. I had thought I had had men of some understanding And wisdom of my council; but I find none. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 4. No man will take counsel, but every man will take money therefore money is better than counsel. 5. And what is more melancholy than the old apple trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising out of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? - NATHANIEL Hawthorne. 6. To things of sale a seller's praise belongs. 7. Traces made of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's watery beams. 8. He is rash and very sudden in choler, and haply may strike at you. - 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 sounds of words nearly alike. 1. Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; And it soft as silk remains. - AARON HILL. 2. I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better or heavier. 3. And did he not, in his protectorship, Levy great sums of money through the realm? 4. No more we see his levee door - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Philosophers and Poets pour. - Robert Burns. 5. Nearing New Orleans, the country became perfectly level, and from the embankments or levees we could see the great river winding on for miles. - JOHN JAMES AUDUBON. 6. We pass a gulf in which the willows dip Their pendent boughs, stooping as if to drink. -WILLIAM COWPER. 7. Birds had found their way into the chapel, and built their nests among its friezes and pendants. Pendent, an adjective. Pendant, a noun. WASHINGTON IRVING. Verbal distinctions. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. Thanks, gentlemen. I heartily accept This token. - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 2. The river lay motionless and glassy, except that here and there a gentle undulation moved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant mountain. - Washington Irving. 3. Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it. 4. One can advise comfortably from a safe port. -JOHANN C. F. SCHILLER. 5. Are there not little chapters in everybody's life. that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history? -WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. 6. Severity is allowable when gentleness has no effect. -PIERRE CORNEILLE. 7. How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams With its illusions, aspirations, dreams! -HENRY WADSWORTH Longfellow. 8. When the least allusion was made to matrimony, he would look at the landlady's daughter and wink with both sides of his face. -OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Verbal distinctions. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. If one so rude and of so mean condition May pass into the presence of a king. - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 2. Whoever makes great presents expects great presents in return. —Marcus V. Martial. 3. Like a jewel-finder's fierce assay, Of the prize he dug from its mountain tomb. ROBERT BROWNING. 4. She could write a little essay on any subject, exactly a slate long, beginning at the left-hand top of one side, and ending at the right-hand bottom of the other. - CHARLES DICKENS. 5. And, after many a vain essay To captivate the tempting prey, Gives him at length the lucky pat, And has him safe beneath his hat. -WILLIAM COWPER. 6. A gentle respect and deference which may be kept as the unbought grace of life. - WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. 7. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh! The difference to me! - WILLIAM Wordsworth. Verbal distinctions. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. Still to ourselves in every place consigned, 3. Use the Our own felicity we make or find. - OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 2. The reign of Elizabeth was the age of learned ladies who read and wrote Greek with surprising facility.-MAXIMilian Schele de Vere. 3. Ivy clasped The fissured stones with its entwining arms. 4. And to the fisher's chorus-note, -PERCY BYSSHE SHELley. Soft moves the dipping oar. -JoAnna Baillie. 5. We have room and hospitality for emigrants who come to our shores to better their condition by the adoption of our citizenship. 6. The immigrant, on arriving, found himself a stranger in a strange land, far from friends. 7. One might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield. - WASHINGTON IRVING. 8. Genius and its rewards are briefly told: A liberal nature and a niggard doom, A difficult journey to a splendid tomb. -JOHN FORSTER. |