"Look next on greatness. Say where greatness lies.
Where, but among the heroes and the wise?"—Pope.
SECTION VII—THE ECPHONEME.
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.
UNDER RULE II.—OF INVOCATIONS.
"Weep on the rocks of roaring winds, O maid of Inistore!"—Ossian. "Cease a little while, O wind! stream, be thou silent a while! let my voice be heard around. Let my wanderer hear me! Salgar! it is Colma who calls. Here is the tree, and the rock. Salgar, my love! I am here. Why delayest thou thy coming? Lo! the calm moon comes forth. The flood is bright in the vale."—Id., Vol. i, p. 369.
"Ah, stay not, stay not! guardless and alone:
Hector! my lov'd, my dearest, bravest son!"—Pope, II., xxii, 61.