Ecphoneme,
"Emphatic interjections, and other expressions of great emotion, are
generally followed by the note of exclamation." Therefore, the pause after
this sentence, should be marked with the latter sign; and, if the "O" be
read with a pause, the same sign may be there also.]

(2.) "O that his heart was tender."--_Exercises, ib._, p. 111. (3.) "_Oh_,
what a sight is here!"--_Lennie's Gram._, p. 48. (4.) "Oh! what a sight is
here."--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 71; (Obs. 2;) _Pract. Les._, p. 83. (5.)
"O virtue! How amiable thou art."--_Id._,, p. 71; _Pract. Les._, p. 82.
(6.) "O _virtue_! how amiable thou art."--_Day's Gram._, p. 109. (7.) "O,
virtue! how amiable thou art."--_S. Putnam's Gram._, p. 53. (8.) "_Oh!_
virtue, how amiable thou art!"--_Hallock's Gram._, p. 191; _O. B.
Peirce's_, 375. (9.) "_O_ virtue! how amiable thou art!"--_Hallock's
Gram._, p. 126. (10.) "Oh! that I had been more diligent."--_Hart's Gram._,
p. 167; see _Hiley's_, 117. (11.) "O! the humiliation to which vice reduces
us."--_Farnum's Gram._, p. 12; _Murray's Ex._, p. 5. (12.) "O! that he were
more prudent."--_Farnum's Gram._, p. 81. (13.) "Ah! me."--_P. Davis's
Gram._, p. 79. (14.) "Ah me!"--_Ib._, p. 122. (15.) "Lately alas I knew a
gentle boy," _&c.--The Dial_, Vol. i, p. 71.

(16.) "Wo is me Alhama."--_Wells's School Gram._, 1st Ed., p. 190.

(17.) "Wo is me, Alhama."--_Ibid._, "113th Thousand," p. 206.

UNDER RULE II.--OF INVOCATIONS.

"Weep on the rocks of roaring winds, O _maid_ of Inistore."--_Kirkham's
Gram._, p. 131; _Cooper's Plain and Practical Gram._, p. 158.

[FORMULE--Not proper, because the emphatic address in this sentence, is
marked with a period after it. But, according to Rule 2d for the Ecphoneme,
"After an earnest address or solemn invocation, the note of exclamation is
now generally preferred to any other point." Therefore, this period should
be changed to the latter sign.]

"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."--See _Key_.

"Ah, stay not, stay not, guardless and alone;
Hector, my lov'd, my dearest, bravest son."--See _Key_.

UNDER RULE III.--EXCLAMATORY QUESTIONS.

"How much better is wisdom than gold."--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 1