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Some words pronounced alike.

1. Copy carefully.

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

1. Who hath not saved some trifling thing More prized than jewels rare,

A faded flower, a broken ring,

A tress of golden hair. - ELLEN C. Howarth.

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2. The merry, merry lark was up and singing, And the hare was out and feeding on the lea.

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3. Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold.— JOHN MILTON.

4. 'Tis the witching hour of night,

Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,

Seeming with bright eyes to listen. JOHN KEAts.

5. Like some of nature's sweetest flowers, Rose from a seed of tiny size

That seemed to promise no such prize.

WILLIAM COWPER

6. The people must cede to the government some of their natural rights. —JOHN JAY.

7. To many a youth, and many a maid,

Dancing in the checkered shade. -JOHN MILTON.

8. God made the country, and man made the town.

- WILLIAM COWPER.

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2. Write from dictation.

Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below,
Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow?

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He steps into the welcome chaise,
Lolls at his ease behind four handsome bays.

- WILLIAM COWPER.

3. Charades and riddles as at Christmas here.

- ALFRED TENNYSON.

4. For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in them, in us a Reasoning Soul.

Some words pronounced alike.

1. Copy carefully.

2. Write from dictation.

italicized words in sentences of your own.

1. Oh, listen! for the vale profound

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Is overflowing with the sound. - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

2. And "twilight gray" had spread its dusky veil.

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3. England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom.

-LYDIA M. CHILD.

4. Though by whim, envy, or resentment led,

They damn those authors whom they never read.

- CHARLES CHURCHILL.

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ch hard = k.

1. Copy the following sentences.

2. Write from dictation.

Girt by many an azure wave

With which the clouds and mountains pave

A lake's blue chasm.- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

2. Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?-THOMAS CARLYLE.

3. Let echo, too, perform her part,

Prolonging every note with art.-JOSEPH ADDISON.

4. Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.- DANIEL WEBSTER.

5. Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.-JOHANN W. GOETHE.

6. The accent, or turn of expression of a single sentence, will at once mark a scholar.-JOHN RUSKIN.

7. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. - ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

ch unmarked.

1. Copy the following sentences.

2. Write from dictation.

1. An honest man is always a child. -MARCUS V. Martial.

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The rivers wove their charms,

And every little daisy in the

grass

Did look up in my face, and smile to see me pass!

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3. Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist

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4. 'Tis thus that on the choice of friends

Our good or evil name depends.-JOHN GAY.

5. Oft in the stilly night

E'er slumber's chain has bound me,

Fond memory brings the light

Of other days around me.- THOMAS MOORE.

6. How can ye chant, ye little birds,

And I so weary full of care?-Robert Burns.

7. Happy the child who is suffered to be and content to be what God meant it to be-a child while childhood lasts. - FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON.

8. The bluebird chants, from the elm's long branches,

A hymn to welcome the budding year.

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Some words pronounced alike.

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

1. One lone beech, unclosing there

Its light leaves in the vernal air.

- JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

2. No sound was heard save the last sob of some retiring wave, telling its story to the smooth. pebbles of the beach. - ELIJAH Kellogg.

3. The antlered Monarch of the waste

Sprang from his heathery couch in haste.

- SIR WALTER Scott.

4. With all the flowers he found, he wove in haste Wreaths for her brow, and girdles for her waist.

- WILLIAM COWPER.

5. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

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6. He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his own home. - JOHANn W. Goethe.

7. I'll make a piece of poetry. - BEN JONSON.

8. What a piece of work is man!-WILLIAM SHAKESPeare. 9. Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

JOHN RUSKIN.

10. He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in

a book. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

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