The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . CHAPTER III. PUNCTUATION. • Mind your stops. This is one of the earliest maximsinculcated by the instructors of youth. Hence it is clearthat the subject of Punctuation is an important one ; butinasmuch as the reader, who has arrived at the presentpage, has either not understood a word that he has beenreading, or else knows as much about the matter as wecan tell him, we fear that a long dissertation concerning PEOSODY. 147 periods, commas, and so on, would only serve to embarrasshis progres
The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . CHAPTER III. PUNCTUATION. • Mind your stops. This is one of the earliest maximsinculcated by the instructors of youth. Hence it is clearthat the subject of Punctuation is an important one ; butinasmuch as the reader, who has arrived at the presentpage, has either not understood a word that he has beenreading, or else knows as much about the matter as wecan tell him, we fear that a long dissertation concerning PEOSODY. 147 periods, commas, and so on, would only serve to embarrasshis progress in learning with useless stops. We shall,therefore, confine ourselves to that notice of Punctuation,and that only, which the peculiar nature of our work mayrequire. First, it may be remarked, that the notes of admirationwhich we so often hear at theatres, may be called notes ofhand. Secondly, that notes of interrogation are not at alllike bank notes ; although they are largely uttered in BancoReginm. Let us now proceed with our subject. It is both absurd and inconvenient to stand upon l2 148 •nit: comic English grammau. Of how much consequence, however, Punctuation is, thestudent may form some idea, by considering the differenteffects which a piece of poetry, for instance, which he hasbeen accustomed to regard as sublime or beautiful, willhave, when liberties are taken with it in that respect. Imagine an actor commencing Hamlets famous soli-loquy, thus :— To be; or not to be that is. The question, saying, in the person of Duncan, in, Macbeth : This castle hath a pleasant seat, the , as the usurper himself, exclaiming, The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!Where gotst thou that goose ? Look !
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