The Grammar of English Grammars · Chapter 639Section VII—The Ecphoneme
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CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE I.—OF INTERJECTIONS, &c.
(1.) "O! that he were wise!"—Bullions cor. (2.) "O! that his heart were tender!"—See Murray's Ex. or Key, under Rule xix. (3 and 4.) "Oh! what a sight is here!"—Bullions, E. Gram., p. 71; (§37;) Pract. Les., p. 82; Analyt. and Pract. Gram., p. 111. (5-9.) "O Virtue! how amiable thou art!"—Farnum's Gram., p. 12; Bullions's Analyt. and Pract. Gram., p. 111. (10.) "Oh! that I had been more diligent!"—Hart cor.; and Hiley. (11.) "O! the humiliation to which vice reduces us!"—Farnum and Mur. cor. (12.) "O! that he were more prudent!"—Farnum cor. (13 and 14.) "Ah me!"—Davis cor.
(15.) "Lately, alas! I knew a gentle boy," &c.—Dial cor.
(16 and 17.) "Wo is me, Alhama!"—Byron's Poems: Wells cor.