The last red splendor floats1 along my wall 2. All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know I know, I know the less. 2 2 2 DR. JOHN Owen. 3. O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows." GEORGE Gordon, LORD BYRON. 4. The birds pour3 forth their souls in notes Of rapture from a thousand throats.1 5. The waves are singing a song of woe!* 6. Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream. - THOMAS HOOD. 7 7. A lively beau of the dapper sort. —John Godfrey Saxe. 8. A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man. 9. The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor,5 The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door." -OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Signs used for o as in not. 1 2 a, Ŏw = ŏ. 1. Copy the following sentences. 2. Write from dictation. 1. Knowledge is the antidote to fear. 2. An idler is a watch1 that wants both hands. As useless if it goes as when it stands. 2 3. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. 4. - WILLIAM COWPER. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden wand1 o'er the landscape.-HENRY WADSWORTH Longfellow. Some words pronounced alike 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. There lingers not a breeze to break The mirror which its waters make. 3. Use the - JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 2. The blackbird and the speckled thrush Good-morrow gave from brake and brush. 3. Speak of frays SIR WALTER Scott. Like a fine bragging youth, and tell quaint lies. 4. His phrase well-chosen, clear, and full of force. - WILLIAM COWPER. 1. Copy the following sentences. 2. Write from dictation. 1. With all the while a cheek whose1 bloom Was as a mockery of the tomb,1 As a departing rainbow's ray. GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON. 2. Not a truth2 has to art or to science been given, But brows have ached for it, and souls toil'd and striven. (OWEN MEREDITH), Robert BULWER, LORD LYTTON. 3. Sweet music went with us both all the wood through,3 The lark, linnet, throstle, and nightingale, too. - JOHN BYROM. 4. And sweetly singing round about thy bed - JOHN MILTON. 5. O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape!-WILLIAM BLAKE. 6. It's good to be merry and wise, It's good to be honest and true. — ROBERT BURNS. 7. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes' to look better than they are. - GEORGE ELIOT. Flowers. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation, or from memory. 1. Here bloom red roses, dewy wet, And beds of fragrant mignonette.- ELAINE GOOdale. 2. Now the tender, sweet arbutus Trails her blossom-clustered vines. - DORA R. GOODALE. 3. And in the woods a fragrance rare We see their blossoms sweet and red. - DORA R. Goodale. 4. Hope's gentle gem, the sweet forget-me-not. 5. Wild rose, sweetbrier, eglantine, All these pretty names are mine. — LEIGH HUNT. 6. In matchless beauty, tender and serene, The gentian reigned, an undisputed queen. 7. O'erhead we see the jasmine, and sweetbrier, And bloomy grapes laughing from green attire. 8. Would that the little flowers were born to live, Conscious of half the pleasure which they give. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. ew, ãe, eū, ūl, iew, ieu, eañ = ñ. 1. Copy the following sentences. 2. Write from dictation. 1. And open pastures, where you scarcely tell White daisies from white dew.1 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. 2. Oft to its warbling waters drew My little feet, when life was new.1 As it always is, at the close of the day. 4. But mark! what arch of varied hue2 From heaven to earth is bowed? Haste, ere it vanish!- haste to view 5 5. His dress a suit of fray'd magnificence. 6. So sweetly she bade me adieu, 7. Autumn's earliest frost had given To the woods below -WILLIAM SHENSTONE. Lendeth to its bow. -JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. |