O ja, dem Herrn ist alles Kinderspiel—Oh, yes, 5 everything is but child's play to the gentleman. Mephisto, in Goethe.
O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, / And men have lost their reason! Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.
O kaum bezwingen wir das eigne Herz; / Wie soll die rasche Jugend sich bezähmen!—Oh, we can hardly subdue our own heart; how shall impetuous youth restrain itself! Schiller.
O l'amour d'une mère! amour que nul n'oublie! / Pain merveilleux, que Dieu partage et multiplie! / Table toujours servie au paternel foyer! / Chacun en a sa part, et tous l'ont tout entier—Oh, the love of a mother, love no one forgets; miraculous bread which God distributes and multiplies; board always spread by the paternal hearth, whereat each has his portion, and all have it entire! Victor Hugo.
O Leben, wie bist du so bitter und hart—Oh, Life, how bitter and harsh thou art! Scheffel.
O let my books be then the eloquence / And 10 dumb presagers of my speaking breast. Browning.
O let thy vow, / First made to heaven, first be to heaven perform'd.... It is religion that doth make vows kept. King John, iii. 1.
"O Liberty, what crimes have been committed in thy name!" Madame Roland, as she bowed to the statue of Liberty at the place of execution.
O Life, an age to the miserable, a moment to the happy. Bacon.
O life! how pleasant is thy morning, / Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! / Cold-pausing Caution's lessons scorning, / We frisk away, / Like schoolboys at th' expected warning, / To joy and play. Burns.