1. Copy the following sentences. 2. Write from dictation. 1. A finch, whose tongue1 knew no control. - WILLIAM COWPER. 2. The touch 2 of the sunbeam hath waked the rose. 3. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! 2 4. Handsome enough, if they be good enough; for handsome is that handsome does.1 5. The floods of time is rolling on. - PERCY BYSSHE SHelley. 6. The sultry summer day is done,1 The western hills have hid the sun. -SIR WALTER SCOTT. Some words pronounced alike 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. italicized words in sentences of your own. 3. Use the 1. Rich and rare were the gems she wore, 2. To wring from me and tell to them my secret. 3. In his noontide bower, JOHN MILTON. Makes woodland echoes ring. - ROBERT BUrns. Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. In that glorious clime Where Nature laughs in scorn of Time. 3. Use the 2. From clime to clime he sped his course. 3. Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar! -JAMES BEATTIE. 4. The person whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.-SIR RIChard Steele. 5. In some lone isle, or distant northern land. 6. Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. 7. The great sun rises to behold the sight. -HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. 8. Those Pyramids shall fall; Their very site shall be forgotten, As is their builder's name!- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 9. The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. 10. They went and told the sexton, and the sexton tolled the bell,-THOMAS HOOD. 1. Copy the following sentences. 2. Write from dictation. 1. Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. -JOHN MILTON. 2. Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. 3. For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.-CHARLES DICKENS. 4. The village all declared how much he knew; 'Twas certain he could write and cipher, too. 5. That very law which molds a tear, SAMUEL ROgers. 6. Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so." 7. There's a divinity that shapes our ends Rough-hew them how we will.-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. |