Part 177 (1/2)
UNDER RULE II--OF INVOCATIONS
”Weep on the rocks of roaring winds, O _maid_ of Inistore”--_Kirkham's Gram_, p 131; _Cooper's Plain and Practical Gram_, p 158
[FORMULE--Not proper, because the emphatic address in this sentence, isto Rule 2d for the Ecphoneme, ”After an earnest address or soleenerally preferred to any other point” Therefore, this period should be changed to the latter sign]
”Cease a little while, O wind; stream, be thou silent a while; let ar, it is Colar, ? Lo, the calht in the vale”--See _Key_
”Ah, stay not, stay not, guardless and alone; Hector, my lov'd, my dearest, bravest son”--See _Key_
UNDER RULE III--EXCLAMATORY QUESTIONS
”How old”--_Bullions, E Gram_, p 153; _Hiley_, p 113
[FORMULE--Not proper, because this exclamatory sentence is pointed with a period at the end But, according to Rule 3d for the Ecphoneme, ”Words uttered with vehemence in the form of a question, but without reference to an answer, should be followed by the note of exclaed to the latter sign]
”O virtue! how amiable art thou”--_Flint's Murray_, p 51 ”At that hour, O how vain was all sublunary happiness”--_Day's Gram_, p 74 ”Alas! ho and transitory are the joys which this world affords to man”--_Ib_, p 12 ”Oh! how vain and transitory are all things here below”--_Ib_, p
110
”And oh! what change of state, what change of rank, In that assembly everywhere was seen”--_Day's Grae of rank!
In that assembly every where was seen!”--_Pollok_, B ix, l 781
MIXED EXAMPLES OF ERROR
”O shae_, p
86 ”O _shaive me my hat”--_Ib_, p 98
”What! is Moscow in flames”--_Ib_, p 86 ”Ah! what happiness awaits the virtuous”--_Ib_, 86
”Ah, welladay,--do e can for hi his point,--the poor soul will die”--STERNE: _Enfield's Speaker_, p 306 ”A well o'day! do e _can_ for hi his point: the poor soul will _die_”--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p 340
”Will John _return_ to-morrow”--_S Barrett's Gram_, Tenth Ed, p 55
”_Will not_ John _return_ to-morrow”--_Ib_, 55 ”John! _return_ to-morrow; Soldiers! _stand_ firm”--_Ib_, 55 ”If _mea_ which means _my_ is an adjective in _Latin_, why lish, and if _my_ is an adjective, why not _Barrett's_”--_Ib_, p 50
”Oh? Absalom, my son”--_O B Peirce's Gram_, p 375 ”Oh! STAR-EYED SCIENCE!! whither hast thou fled?”--_Ib_, p 366 ”Why do you tolerate your own inconsistency, by calling it the present tense!”--_Ib_, p 360
”Thus the declarativea question; as, _what_ man _is_ frail”--_Ib_, p 358 ”What connexion has motive wish, or supposition, with the terrand reason, truly! for calling it a golden key”--_Ib_, p 347 ”What '_suffering_'!
the _'”--_Ib_, p 345 ”What is Brown's Rule! in relation to this matter?”--_Ib_, p 334
”_Alas!_ how short is life” ”_Thomas_, study your book”--_Day's District School Gram_, p 109 ”As, '_alas!_' how short is life; _Thomas_, study your book'”--_Ib_, p 82 ”Who can tell us who they are”--_Sanborn's Gram_, p 178 ”Lord have mercy on my son; for he is a lunatic, etc”--_Felton's Graroves, O, where is now your bloom!”--_Ib_, p 88; Ster Ed, 91
”O who of man the story will unfold!”
--_Farnuht I heard Horatio say to-morrow