Part 91 (1/2)
”What! will these hands never be clean?--No more of that, ””Here is the smell of blood still--All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand Oh!
oh! oh!”--_Shak, Macbeth_, Act V, Sc 1
”Ha! at the gates what grisly forhter wound the ear!”--_Merry_
LESSON II--PARSING
”Yet this htful thought! O horrible ie! Forbid it, O Father of mercy! If it be possible, let no creature of thine ever be the object of that wrath, against which the strength of thy whole creation united, would stand but as the h's Speaker_, p 289
”If it be so, our God, e serve, is able to deliver us fro fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king
But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that ill not serve thy Gods, nor worshi+p the golden ie which thou hast set up”--_Daniel_, iii, 17 and 18
”Grant me patience, just Heaven!--Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world--though the cant of hypocrites !”--_Sterne_
”Ah, no! Achilles reat”--_Pope_
LESSON III--PARSING
”O let not thy heart despise ht that it is misery to lose that which it is not happiness to possess”--_Dr
Johnson_
”Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery! still thou art a bitter draught; and though thousands in all ages have been made to drink of thee, thou art no less bitter on that account”--_Sterne_
”Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character; and if any body reports you not to be an honest or a good ive him the lie This is all very feasible”--_Antoninus_
”Oh that men should put an enemy into their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!”--_Shakspeare_
”All these afar off stood, crying, Alas!
Alas! and wept, and gnashed their teeth, and groaned; And with the owl, that on her ruins sat, Made dolorous concert in the ear of Night”--_Pollok_
”snatch'd in thy prime! alas, the stroke were mild, Had my frail form obey'd the fate's decree!
Blest were my lot, O Cynthio! O my child!
Had Heaven so pleas'd, and I had died for thee!”--_Shenstone_
IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION
ERRORS RESPECTING INTERJECTIONS
”Of chance or change, oh let not man complain”--_Bucke's Classical Gram_, p 85
[FORMULE--Not proper, because the interjection _oh_, a sign of sorrow, pain, or surprise, is here used to indicateto the list of interjections, or OBS 2d under it, the interjection of wishi+ng, earnestness, or vocative address, is _O_, and not _oh_ Therefore, _oh_ should here be _O_; thus, ”Of chance or change, _O_ let not man complain”--_Beattie's Minstrel_, B ii, l 1]
”O thou persecutor! Oh ye hypocrites”--_Merchant's Gram_, p 99; _et al_
”Oh! thou, who touchedst Isaiah's hallowed lips with fire”--_Ib_, (_Key_,) p 197 ”Oh! happy we, surrounded by so s”--_Ib_, (_Exercises_,) p 138 ”Oh! thou, who art so un, oh teach my heart To find that better way”--_Pope's Works_ ”Heus! evocate hue Davum _Ter_ Hoe!
call Davus out hither”--_Walker's Particles_, p 155 ”It was represented by an analogy, (Oh, how inadequate!) which was borrowed froanisht live before thee!”--ALGER'S BIBLE: _Gen_, xvii, 18 ”And he said unto hiry, and I will speak”--FRIENDS' BIBLE: _Gen_, xviii, 30