Byron, if not one of the safest, was one of the warmest of friends; and he plucked the more eagerly at the choicest fruit of English public school and college life, from the feeling he so pathetically expresses, Is there no cause beyond the common claim, Endear'd to all in childhood's very name?

The sails were split, the mainyard shivered, the wind blowing fresh, the night setting in; and all our chance was to make for Corfuor, as F. pathetically called it, 'a watery grave.'

She was pretty enough, but very quiet and self-absorbed, a slender, nervous creature with that pathetically eager look peculiar to her age and caste in France, starving for the life she might not live till marriage should set her free.

The bridge which continues the communication of the quays, was first passed, and then he was stealing beneath that far-famed arch which supports a covered gallery leading from the upper story of the palace into that of the prisons, and which, from its being appropriated to the passage of the accused from their cells to the presence of their judges, has been so poetically, and it may be added so pathetically, called the Bridge of Sighs.

Fortunately, she is not obliged to depend upon crutches; but she cannot run about, and she walks with a pathetically halting step.

Great was the wonder at the sudden and simultaneous disappearance of so many "prime hands," roughly estimated, though probably with considerable exaggeration, as worth in the market not less than a hundred thousand dollars,and all at "one fell swoop" too, as the District Attorney afterwards, in arguing the case against me, pathetically expressed it!

"Nor I. We make a point of saying nothing," said Miss Crewys, pathetically, "but it's almost impossible not to look now and then.

'My earnest desire signified to have my spouse receive those ladies in her own house, if Mrs. Fretchville would but know her own mind; and I pathetically lamented the delay occasioned by her not knowing it.

Great was his love for Greane, but greater far His love for Agathar Born of his pain, A strange dependence tinged pathetically The proud possession of his trust as guard Of her reft life and lonely widowhood.

Piers was pathetically grateful.

" "Most of it on a desert island," put in Mr. Wotton, pathetically.

Goderich spoke pathetically against the Terceira affairLord Wharncliffe well with usLansdowne wide and loosethe Duke very excellentAberdeen worse than usual, and very imprudent, abusing Miguel and making awkward admissions.

Commenting on this in a letter to Mr. Kendall of November 22, 1855, Morse, pathetically and yet philosophically, says: "Is there any mode of arrangement with Smith by which matters in partnership can be conducted with any degree of harmony?

Travelling with a large family was a different proposition from the independence which he had enjoyed on his previous visits to Europe, when he was either alone or accompanied only by his wife and niece, and he pathetically remarks to his brother Sidney, in a letter of September 3, written from Interlaken: "It was a great mistake I committed in bringing my family.

for many years Thou didst travel far and wide Through a life of smiles and tears, Rarely absent from his side, As the light of day for him Grew pathetically dim.

We therefore close this section of our article with a bit of prose and a bit of poetry, among Hood's "last things,"personally and pathetically characteristic of his nature and his genius.

A soldier's wife, an elderly woman, said to me pathetically, "We have six vintems (twelve cents) a day,my husband smokes and I take snuff,and how are we to buy shoes and stockings?"

Sheshutting out the before and afterwas that pathetically festive little monkey; and society was the clown holding the stringthe whole of it advertising the tawdry thing the clown called life.

Yet they were, in a sense, discoveries to him; not one of them but was deeply and sincerely felt; not one but is not a direct and to us a pathetically dispassionate statement of the reflection of thirty years of grinding poverty and a soul's anguish.

" In the realm of childhood and innocence, which Wordsworth entered fearfully and pathetically as an alien traveller, he moves with the simple and assured ease of one native.

Mr. Tymperley had seen his friends perhaps half a dozen times, his enjoyment of their society pathetically intense, but troubled by any slightest allusion to his mode of life.

"No," she said, "I have changed a little," and she looked pathetically at him.

" In his collection of Esthonian folk-songs Neus has a poem which pathetically pictures the fate of a bartered bride.

Of 205 cases reported in a Bengal Medico-Legal Report, 5 ended fatally, 38 were crippled, and the general effect of such cruelty is pathetically touched on by Mme.

The same thing is more pathetically expressed by Byron in Sardanapalus, Act i, Sc. 2: "The very first Of human life must spring from woman's breast, Your first small words are taught you from her lips, Your first tears quench'd by her, and your last sighs Too often breathed out in a woman's hearing, When men have shrunk from the ignoble care Of watching the last hour of him who led them.