Part 176 (2/2)

--_Brit Poets_, vi, 380

SECTION VII--THE ECPHONEME

The Ecphoneme, or Note of Excla e; and, as a sign of great wonder, it is soantly, repeated: as, ”Graem!”--_Peirce's Gram_, p 352

RULE I--INTERJECTIONS, &c

Ereat eenerally followed by the note of exclamation; as, ”Hold! hold! Is the devil in you? Oh! I ah's Speaker_, p

250

”And O! till earth, and seas, and heav'n decay, Ne'er may that fair creation fade away!”--_Dr Lowth_

RULE II--INVOCATIONS

After an earnest address or soleenerally preferred to any other point; as, ”Whereupon, O king Agrippa!

I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision”--_Acts_, xxvi, 19

”Be witness thou, immortal Lord of all!

Whose thunder shakes the dark aerial hall”--_Pope_

RULE III--EXCLAMATORY QUESTIONS

Words uttered with vehemence in the form of a question, but without reference to an answer, should be followed by the note of excla_

”An Author! 'Tis a venerable name!

Ho deserve it, and what numbers claim!”

--_Id, Br Po_, viii, 401

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION

FALSE PUNCTUATION--ERRORS CONCERNING THE ECPHONEME

UNDER RULE I--OF INTERJECTIONS, &c

(1) ”O that he ise”--_Bullions, E Gra wish, introduced by ”O,” isto Rule 1st for the Ecphonereat eenerally followed by the note of exclamation” Therefore, the pause after this sentence, should be n; and, if the ”O” be read with a pause, the san may be there also]

(2) ”O that his heart was tender”--_Exercises, ib_, p 111 (3) ”_Oh_, what a sight is here!”--_Lennie's Graht is here”--_Bullions, E Gram_, p 71; (Obs 2;) _Pract Les_, p 83 (5) ”O virtue! How amiable thou art”--_Id_,, p 71; _Pract Les_, p 82

(6) ”O _virtue_! how amiable thou art”--_Day's Gram_, p 109 (7) ”O, virtue! how amiable thou art”--_S Putnam's Gram_, p 53 (8) ”_Oh!_ virtue, how amiable thou art!”--_Hallock's Gram_, p 191; _O B

Peirce's_, 375 (9) ”_O_ virtue! how amiable thou art!”--_Hallock's Graent”--_Hart's Gram_, p 167; see _Hiley's_, 117 (11) ”O! the humiliation to which vice reduces us”--_Farnum's Gram_, p 12; _Murray's Ex_, p 5 (12) ”O! that he were more prudent”--_Farnum's Gram_, p 81 (13) ”Ah! me”--_P Davis's Gram_, p 79 (14) ”Ah entle boy,” _&c--The Dial_, Vol i, p 71

(16) ”Wo is me Alhama”--_Wells's School Gram_, 1st Ed, p 190

(17) ”Wo is me, Alhama”--_Ibid_, ”113th Thousand,” p 206