(1) But I boldly cried out, "Woe unto this city!"
(2) Alas, how few of them can say, "I have striven to the very utmost"!
(3) How fearful was the cry: "Help, or we perish"!
LXII. Where an interrogative sentence ends with a quotation of an exclamatory nature, or an exclamatory sentence ends with a quotation of an interrogative nature, it seems better to place at the end both the point of interrogation and the mark of exclamation, the one inside, the other outside, the inverted commas.
Do you remember who it was that wrote
"Whatever England's fields display,
The fairest scenes are thine, Torbay!"?
How much better to cease asking the question, "What would he have done in different circumstances?"!
Where inverted commas are not used, it seems sufficient to have only one point, which must be the one required by the whole sentence, not by the quotation.
Do you remember the passage where Burke alludes to the old warning of the Church—Sursum corda?