But straws the wheat and saves the chaff
With a most evil fan.
This too I know—and wise it were
If each could know the same—
That every prison that men build
Is built with bricks of shame,
And bound with bars lest Christ should see
How men their brothers maim.
With bars they blur the gracious moon,
And blind the goodly sun:
And they do well to hide their Hell,
For in it things are done
That son of God nor son of Man
Ever should look upon!
In Reading gaol by Reading town
There is a pit of shame,
And in it lies a wretched man
Eaten by teeth of flame,
In a burning winding sheet he lies,
And his grave has got no name.
And there, till Christ call forth the dead,
In silence let him lie:
No need to waste the foolish tear,
Or heave the windy sigh:
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword.
—Oscar Wilde.
SPELLING
LESSON 21
In Lesson No. 17 we studied concerning abstract nouns derived from qualifying adjectives. We found that we formed these nouns expressing quality from adjectives that describe quality by the addition of suffixes.
Adjectives may likewise be formed from nouns and also from verbs by the addition of suffixes. There are a number of suffixes which may be used to form adjectives in this way; as, al, ous, ic, ful, less, able, ible, ary and ory. Notice the following words: nation, national; peril, perilous; reason, reasonable; sense, sensible; custom, customary; advise, advisory; hero, heroic; care, careful, careless.
To some words, more than one suffix may be added and an adjective of different meaning formed; for example, use, useless, useful; care, careless, careful.
Make as many adjectives as you can from the nouns and verbs given in the spelling lesson for this week by the addition of one or more of the following suffixes:
Al, less, ous, ic, ful, able, ible, ary, ory, and ly.
Monday
Accident
Danger
Origin
Commend
Element
Tuesday
Critic
Libel
Attain
Revolution
Contradict
Wednesday
Cynic
Injury
Respect
Station
Migrate
Thursday
Event
Parent
Order
Virtue