1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation, or from memory. But when the patient stars look down The traitor's smile, the murderer's frown, They try to shut their saddening eyes, And in the vain endeavor We see them twinkling in the skies, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. - SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. I shall speak of trees as we see them, love them, adore them in the fields, where they are alive, holding their green sunshades over our heads, talking to us with their hundred thousand whispering tongues. Sunday afternoon the birds were sweetly mad, and the lovely rage of song drove them hither and thither, and swelled their breasts amain. It was nothing less than a tornado of fine music. I kept saying, "Yes, yes, yes, I know, dear little maniacs! I know there never was such an air, such a day, such a sky, such a God! I know it, I know it!" But they would not be pacified. Their throats must have been made of fine gold, or they would have been rent by such rapture quakes. - MRS. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (in a letter to her mother). Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. With kind words and kinder looks, he bade me go my way.-JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 2. Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.-BEN Jonson. 3. Then as to greet the sunbeam's birth, Rises the choral hymn of earth.-FELICIA D. HEMANS. 4. He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. 5. He who knows most, grieves most for wasted time. 6. And desert caves With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown. -JOHN MILTON. 7. Tell not as new what everybody knows, And new or old, still hasten to a close. - WILLIAM COWPER. 8. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. 9. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. -SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIdge. 10. I have studied eight or nine wise words to speak to you.-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Sound of oi as in oil, unmarked. 1. Copy the following sentences carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. Till the Alps replied to that voice of war 2. With a thousand of their own. - FELICIA D. HEMANS. In every soil Those that think must govern those that toil. - OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 3. We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the union. 4. The church spires point as with silent finger to the sky and stars. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 5. In morning's smile its eddies coil, 6. Its billows sparkle, toss, and boil. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. We gather flowery spoils From land and water. -WILLIAM WOrdsworth. 7. Yonder bank hath choice of sun and shade. - JOHN MILTON. 8. Where the sweet winds did gently kiss the trees And they did make no noise. -WILLIAM SHAKESPeare. 9. Where with black cliffs the torrents toil, He watch'd the wheeling eddies boil. -SIR WALTER SCOTT. Sound of ou as in out, unmarked. 1. Copy the following sentences carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. It's hardly in a body's power 2. To keep at times from being sour. — ROBERT BURNS. In flowery June, When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound. - WILLIAM CULLEN Bryant. 3. And waves on the outer rocks afoam Shout to its waters, "Welcome home!" -JOHN GREENLEAF WHittier. 4. In the elms, - a noisy crowd! All the birds are singing loud.-MARY HOWITT. 5. The proud are always most provoked by pride. - WILLIAM COWPER. 6. Where weeping birch and willow round, With their long fibers swept the ground. 7. It was a voice so mellow, so bright and warm and round, As if a beam of sunshine had been melted into sound. HJALMAR H. BOYESEN. 8. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. - ALEXANDER Pope. Sound of ow as in how, unmarked. 1. Copy the following sentences carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. Often in thought I go up and down The pleasant streets of the dear old town. 2. The sun had on a crown - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Wrought of gilded thistle-down, And a raveled rainbow gown. - JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. 3. Crowds of bees are busy with clover, Crowds of grasshoppers skip at my feet. -JEAN INGELOW. 4. And muffled growls, like the growl of a beast, Ran along the sky from west to east. -JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 5. O'er yon bare knoll the pointed cedar shadows Drowse on the crisp gray moss.-JAMES RUSSELL Lowell. 6. All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers, Hush'd are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers. 7. What though the sun, with ardent frown, Had slightly tinged her cheek with brown. 8. The arts of building from the bee receive, Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave. - ALEXANDER POPE. E |