He enriched the poetry of the domestic affections, and had a vein of sadness which occasionally, as in To Mary, deepened into the most touching pathos.

His serious poetry is full of the tenderest pathos.

In one situation, with little movement, with few figures, it flashes out a great dramatic lesson, the infinite pathos of a successful wrong.

Of the stories in this diversified collection that of Anziana approaches in kind, though not in degree, the tragic pathos of Isabella and the Pot of Basil ("Decameron," IV, 5).

We find in Nero none of those touches of swift subtle pathos that dazzle us in the Duchess of Malfy; but we find strokes of sarcasm no less keen and trenchant.

There was unconscious pathos in the declaration.

They come so close to you, are so beautiful and so clever; and sometimes there seems such a curious pathos about them.

"At last, laying my hand on his shoulder, and throwing considerable pathos into my voice, I said: "My friend, it was not always thus with you.

MOZART, BEETHOVEN, and a host of others excelled in this respect, but they all lack that exquisite pathos and graceful rhetoric which so distinguished this queen of literature.

Some of the lines have the ring of genuine pathos, as here: "Where are thy counsels, where thy good examples?

Moses himself, a great master of historical composition, has in six verses told that story, with singular pathos and beauty; yet he directly relates nothing further of his life until, at the age of forty, he killed an Egyptian overseer who was smiting one of his oppressed brethren, and buried him in the sands,thereby showing that he was indignant at injustice, or clung in his heart to his race of slaves.

A few have attempted it, but they betray a crudeness and lack of pathos painful to witness.

A light, familiar grace, and mild unpretending pathos are the characteristics of his more sportive or serious writings, whether in poetry or prose.

Her finest qualities are a sharp and ready wit and a wealth of imaginative pathos, alike pervaded by her bubbling humour; on the other hand there are moments, if rare, when in an ill-considered attempt to assume the buskin tread she reveals in her paste-board fustian somewhat of the unregeneracy of the plebian trull.

And eighteen years later there was a whimsical pathos in the phrase in which he announced his fatal illness to a friend: "Yes, I am going to join the Majorityand you know I have always preferred Minorities.

I thought that these verses too had a sweet sincere pathos of their own.

There is but one thing which would push Aniela into my arms, and that is her heart; but no artificial scenes, no phrases or false pathos.

So that, in the whole man, a sensitive observer would have felt a peculiar pathos, as though nature had given him a desire to be, and no power to become, and had then sent him on his zigzag way, never to dream wherein his trouble lay.

Her imperfections and short-comings affected me with a kind of playful pathos, which was as absolutely bewitching a sensation as ever I experienced.

Nor can the reader fail to be struck by the profound pathos which many of them express so well.

Yet, if in those who had thus wrought the writer's destruction there had been one human feeling, it might have been awakened by the simple dignity and unaffected pathos of this sad farewell.

* Peter always remembered his mother's funeral in fragments of intolerable pathos,the lifting of old Parson Ranson's hands toward heaven, the songs of the black folk, the murmur of the first shovelful of dirt as it was lowered to the coffin, and the final raw mound of earth littered with a few dying flowers.

There is a unique pathos in her use of this word: it lifted her a little from the ground that her fall might be all the harder.

An unutterable reverential pathos always to him encircled the idea of his mother.

He was an ample flabby person, built like an isosceles triangle with a smallish head for the apex, slightly expanded in the gangliar region just above the nape of the neckmedical students and phrenologists please noteand habitually wearing an expression of helpless pathos.