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The line was that celebrated one in Othello Mr. Booth contended to have it thus: I could not help offering my conjecture on this occasion, and suggested it might perhaps be Put out the light, and then put out THY light. Another hinted a reading very sophisticated in my opinion Put out the light, and then put out THEE, light, making light to be the vocative case.
To warn passengers of the starting and of the approach of trains only a moderate application of the whistle is needed, whilst for the diplomatic the discreet purpose of practical manoeuvre, namely, to draw the attention of signalmen to the passing of points by trains, extra power is requisite; but the gruesome display, I maintain, of vocative sounds tuned to an intellectual point of mood is needless.
Cloud-compelling Zeus, Godlike Paris fights in front for the Trojans, instead of "in front of." There about the hollow cave trailed a gadding vine. Where in the original the Greek word "cave" is in the genitive case, not as it should be, dative. And the cause of the mutation is that the nominative accusative and vocative seem to have a certain relation to one another.
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