Spem gregis, ah! silice in nudâ connixa reliquit:
Having yearned, she left the hope of the flock, alas!
upon the bare flint stones.
And exposed to the _steely_-hearted world, which, as an Irishman
remarked, was a dangerous situation for _tinder_ infancy. It must have
been, to say the least, a most uncomfortable _berth_.
O! of one exclaiming, is joined to a nominative, accusative, and
vocative case, as
O lex! Oh law! O alaudas! Oh larks! Oh meum! Oh my!
O care! Oh dear!
We cannot find out what is Latin for oh Crikey!
Heu! and proh! alas! are joined, sometimes to a nominative, sometimes to
an accusative, and occasionally to a vocative case, as-- Heu bellis!
Lack-a-_daisy_. Heu diem! Lack-a-_day_. Proh Clamor! Oh _cry_! Proh deos
pisciculosque! Oh, ye gods and little fishes!
Heu miserande puer!
Oh, boy, to be pitied!
What boy is more to be pitied than a junior boy? The _Fagin_ system
described in Oliver Twist is nothing compared to that adopted in public
schools. People may say what they will of the beneficial effect which it
produces on the minds of those who are subjected to it-- we contend that
to breed a gentleman's son up like a _tiger_ is the readiest way to make
a _beast_ of him.