Re: Oh for the ...

mUs1Ka wrote:
Alan Jones wrote: 
"Marius Hancu" <NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello:

This "Oh for the ..." must be retorical or poetical, but I don't have
a complete understanding of it, e.g. in:
"Oh for the scissors and the lamplight and the buckram shapes!"
as in this Woolf quotation.

I found somewhere that
"O! for ..." means "I wish that I had ..."
but not sure if it fits here.
[snip]


He wishes he were in the hatmakers' room, instead of alone in his bed
where he is subject to panic attacks. "O! for ..." expresses a desire
for something, and the "something" can be a situation.



 Oh for the wings, for the wings of a dove
Far away, far away would I rove
Oh for the wings, for the wings of a dove
Far away, Far away, Far away, Far away would I rove.


Oh, for the love of Pete!

--Jeff

--
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark
of an authoritarian personality.
-Theodor Adorno
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