Hand-book of punctuation

by William Johnson Cocker

“The tuneful Nine (so sacred legends tell)

First waked their heavenly lyre these scenes to tell!”—Campbell.

“Their intellectual wardrobe (to confess fairly) has few whole pieces in it.”—Lamb.

REMARKS.

1. When parenthetical marks are used, it is sometimes necessary to use additional marks.

a. When the sentence, without the parenthesis, requires a punctuation mark where the parenthetical marks are used, the punctuation mark should be placed after the last mark of the parenthesis; as,—

“Know then this truth (enough for man to know),

‘Virtue alone is happiness below.’”—Pope.

b. Sometimes the parenthesis requires a punctuation mark before the last mark of the parenthesis; as, “Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations.”—Thomas Fuller.