MIXED EXAMPLES OF ERROR.

“O shame! where is thy blush.”—­S.  Barren’s Principles of Language, p. 86.  “O shame, where is thy blush; John, give me my hat.”—­Ib., p. 98.  “What! is Moscow in flames.”—­Ib., p. 86.  “Ah! what happiness awaits the virtuous.”—­Ib., 86.

“Ah, welladay,—­do what we can for him, said Trim, maintaining his point,—­the poor soul will die.”—­STERNE:  Enfield’s Speaker, p. 306.  “A well o’day! do what we can for him, said Trim, maintaining his point:  the poor soul will die”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 340.

“Will John return to-morrow.”—­S.  Barrett’s Gram., Tenth Ed., p. 55. “Will not John return to-morrow.”—­Ib., 55.  “John! return to-morrow; Soldiers! stand firm.”—­Ib., 55.  “If mea which means my is an adjective in Latin, why may not my be so called in English, and if my is an adjective, why not Barrett’s”—­Ib., p. 50.

“Oh?  Absalom, my son.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 375.  “Oh!  STAR-EYED SCIENCE!! whither hast thou fled?”—­Ib., p. 366.  “Why do you tolerate your own inconsistency, by calling it the present tense!”—­Ib., p. 360.  “Thus the declarative mode may be used in asking a question; as, what man is frail.”—­Ib., p. 358.  “What connexion has motive wish, or supposition, with the term subjunctive!”—­Ib., p. 348.  “A grand reason, truly! for calling it a golden key.”—­Ib., p. 347.  “What ‘suffering’! the man who can say this, must be ‘enduring.’”—­Ib., p. 345.  “What is Brown’s Rule! in relation to this matter?”—­Ib., p. 334.

“Alas! how short is life.” “Thomas, study your book.”—­Day’s District School Gram., p. 109.  “As, ‘alas!’ how short is life; Thomas, study your book.’”—­Ib., p. 82.  “Who can tell us who they are.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 178.  “Lord have mercy on my son; for he is a lunatic, etc.”—­Felton’s Gram., 1st Ed., p. 138; Ster.  Ed., 140.  “O, ye wild groves, O, where is now your bloom!”—­Ib., p. 88; Ster.  Ed., 91.

   “O who of man the story will unfold!”
        —­Farnum’s Gr., 2d Ed., p. 104.

    “Methought I heard Horatio say to-morrow. 
    Go to I will not hear of it—­to-morrow.”
        —­Hallock’s Gr., 1st Ed., p. 221.

    “How his eyes languish? how his thoughts adore
    That painted coat which Joseph never wore?”
        —­Love of Fame, p. 66.

SECTION VIII.—­THE CURVES.

The Curves, or Marks of Parenthesis, are used to distinguish a clause or hint that is hastily thrown in between the parts of a sentence to which it does not properly belong; as, “Their enemies (and enemies they will always have) would have a handle for exposing their measures.”—­Walpole.