Chapter XI: Interjections

CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF INTERJECTIONS.

"Of chance or change, _O_ let not man complain."--_Beattie's Minstrel_, B. ii, l. 1. "O thou persecutor! _O_ ye hypocrites!"--_Russell's Gram._, p. 92. "_O_ thou my voice inspire, Who _touch'd_ Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire!"--_Pope's Messiah_. "_O happy we_! surrounded by so many blessings!"--_Merchant cor._ "_O thou who_ art so unmindful of thy duty!"--_Id._ "If I am wrong, _O_ teach my heart To find that better way."--_Murray's Reader_, p. 248. "Heus! evocate huc Davum."--_Ter_. "Ho! call Davus out hither."--_W. Walker cor._ "It was represented by an analogy (_O_ how inadequate!) which was borrowed from the _ceremonies_ of paganism."--_Murray cor._ "_O_ that Ishmael might live before thee!"--_Friends' Bible_, and _Scott's_. "And he said unto him, _O_ let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak."--_Alger's Bible_, and _Scott's_. "And he said, _O_ let not the Lord be angry."--_Alger; Gen._, xviii. 32. "_O_ my Lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word."--_Scott's Bible_. "_O_ Virtue! how amiable thou art!"--_Murray's Gram._, p. 128. "_Alas_! I fear for life."--See _Ib._ "_Ah_ me! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain!"--See _Bucke's Gram._, p. 87. "_O_ that I had digged myself a cave!"--_Fletcher cor._ "_Oh_, my good lord! thy comfort comes too late."--_Shak. cor._ "The vocative takes no article: it is distinguished thus: _O Pedro_! O Peter! _O Dios_! O God!"--_Bucke cor._ "_Oho_! But, the relative is always the same."--_Cobbett cor._ "_All-hail_, ye happy men!"--_Jaudon cor._ "_O_ that I had wings like a dove!'--_Scott's Bible_. "_O glorious_ hope! O _bless'd_ abode!"--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 304. "_Welcome_ friends! how joyous is your presence!"--_T. Smith cor._ "_O_ blissful days!--_but, ah_! how soon ye pass!"--_Parker and Fox cor._

"_O_ golden days! _O_ bright unvalued hours!--
What bliss, did ye but know that bliss, were yours!"--_Barbauld cor._

"_Ah_ me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!"--_Hudibras cor._

THE KEY.--PART III.--SYNTAX.

CHAPTER I.--SENTENCES.

The first chapter of Syntax, being appropriated to general views of this part of grammar, to an exhibition of its leading doctrines, and to the several forms of sentential analysis, with an application of its principal rules in parsing, contains no false grammar for correction; and has, of course, nothing to correspond to it, in this Key, except the title, which is here inserted for form's sake.