It appears to me however that the sense would rather require either a full stop after 'his own,' and a comma after 'sorrow,' or else a comma after 'his own,' and a full stop or colon after 'sorrow.'

In all editorial notes the titles given by Wordsworth to his Poems are invariably printed in italics, not with inverted commas before and after, as Wordsworth himself so often printed them: and when he gave no title to a poem, its first line will be invariably placed within inverted commas.

He had simply put the comma in the wrong place.

[Footnote 7: 'as he would have Peace stand between their friendships like a comma between two words.'

I read my letter, interluding it with little commas of sipping at the cup.

A full-stop has been substituted for a comma at the end of the line here, and elsewhere in similar cases.

[1878.] [Index] [Missing commas within entries or before sub-entries have been silently supplied.

Pa may stand for the definite article, being the first syllable of pazhik; and a comma for the indefinite article.

But performers, to simplify our musical system, have divided this comma into two, making synonymous notes of D flat and C sharp; that is to say, notes having the same sound.

Try the reverse, that is, divide the interval B sharp-C into seven commas on the semitones A flat-G; it will be unendurable.

The Germans, however, make less frequent use of the comma than we; and the Spaniards usually mark a question or an exclamation doubly, inverting the point at the beginning of the sentence.

Editors may punctuate afresh the text of Shakespeare with impunity, and perhaps even with advantage; but add a comma to the text of Blake, and you put all Heaven in a rage.